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International SOLAS:
Network Progress and
Data Management
SCOR Summit Meeting
London December 2006
1. Science
2. Structure
3. National Developments
4. Network Activities
5. Major SOLAS Endeavors
6. Data and Project Management
Science
The Domain of SOLAS Research
SOLAS has 3 Foci:
Focus 1: Biogeochemical Interactions and Feedbacks
Between Ocean and Atmosphere
Chairs: Bill Miller (USA) & Mitsuo Uematsu (Japan)
Focus 2: Exchange Processes at the Air-Sea Interface and
the Role of Transport and Transformation in the
Atmospheric and Oceanic Boundary Layers
Chair: Wade McGillis (USA)
Focus 3: Air-Sea Flux of CO2 and Other Long-Lived
Radiatively-Active Gases
Chairs: Truls Johannessen (Norway) & Arne Koertzinger (Germany)
Activity is joint w/ IMBER and has 3 sub-groups:
WG1-Surface Ocean Systems
WG2-Interior Ocean
WG3-Sensitivity: (future oceans)
• Joint Implementation Plan
complete (see web sites)
• To be printed early 2007
• Meet in Paris in April; IOCCP
Surface pCO2 and Ocean
Vulnerability Workshop
Structure
The IGBP Network
AIMES
GEWEX 1988 
WCRP
Observation
Assmilation
Panel
SPARC 1992
WGNE
WGCM
WGSF
Coordinated Observation and
Prediction of the Earth System
CLIVAR 1995 
SOLAS 2001 ->
WCRP
Modelling
Panel
CliC 2000 
SOLAS Networks in 23 Nations
Substantial Programs:
Canada
Germany
Japan
UK
USA
Sponsors:
SOLAS is developing an
African Network
Cape Verde
Egypt
Ghana
Kenya
Morocco
Nigeria
South Africa
Zimbabwe
Future plans include an African-SOLAS Workshop
National Developments
Major NEW SOLAS Funded Program in Germany
Coordinator:
Submitted:
Proposed start:
Requested:
Douglas Wallace, IFM-GEOMAR
Jan 2006
Jan 2007
EU 6.5 m over 3 years
(12 Institutions, 43 Investigators, 23 sub-projects)
SOLAS-Japan
“Linkages in Biogeochemical Cycles Between the
Surface Ocean and Lower Atmosphere”
July 2006 award; $9.2 million; 5 Year duration
• Source the supply of land-based substances controlling primary production
in the Pacific
• Determine how the marine ecological system will response to changing
atmospheric composition
• Determine how the production and emission of biogenic gases affect
atmospheric composition
• Evaluate the contribution of marine biogenic gases to global warming
• Provide basic knowledge of the issues of global warming to policy makers
OUTLINE of Implementation Projects for each Focus
US-SOLAS
Science Plan
1:1 Global Ocean Trace Gas Surveys
1:2 The North-Atlantic African Dust-Aerosol
Experiment (NAFDAE)
1:3 Ocean-Atmosphere Ice-Snowpack (OASIS)
1:4 Climate Modeling in SOLAS (CLIMAS)
2:1 World Ocean Gas Exchange Process Studies
2:2 Surface Spray in situ and modelling studies
2:3 HiT-US
2:4 Cape Verde Air-Sea Interaction Time Series
Station
3:1 Air-Water Carbon and Methane Fluxes in
Coastal Oceans
3:2 Southern Ocean Carbon Dioxide Studies
3:3 Global Surface Carbon Concentration Surveys
3:4 Perturbation Experiments
4:1 Autonomous and Langrangian platforms
(ALPS) for SOLAS
4:2 Satellites and Model Assimilations
4:3 Summer School
4:4 Data Management
Network Activities
SOLAS/INI Review of
Anthropogenic Nitrogen Impacts on the Open Ocean
Joint SOLAS/International Nitrogen Initiative (INI) Review of
Anthropogenic Nitrogen Impacts on the Open Ocean
University of East Anglia on 17-20 November 2006.
The products will be 2-3 papers for submission to journals such
as Deep-Sea Research or Global Biogeochemical Cycles, and a
review paper submitted to Science or Nature.
SOLAS, NOAA, INI and SCOR sponsored
• With support from SOLAS International Project Office and BELSPO
DMS model inter-comparison workshop
Brussels, 4-8 December 2006
Conduct a systematic comparison of DMS ecosystem models against common
data sets to spur improvements and indicate needed observations to better
constrain DMS dynamics.
• Origin: Discussion forum at SOLAS Open Science meeting, Halifax Oct 2004
Ad-hoc committee: C. Lancelot, M. Levasseur and A. Vezina
Y. Le Clainche drafted as scientific coordinator, V. Schoemann as local organizer
• With support from IOCCP, SOLAS, IMBER and GCP
Ocean Surface pCO2 and
Vulnerabilities Workshop
Paris, 11-14 April 2007
• Review
current knowledge and enhance international cooperation to
resolve the magnitude, variability and processes governing ocean
sources and sinks of carbon: from observations, process-based models
and atmospheric and oceanic inversions
• Vulnerabilities in the Ocean Carbon-Climate System
• Ocean Carbon Sources and Sinks
• Estimation of Air-Sea CO2 Fluxes
Planning Committe: Bronte Tilbrook, Nicolas Metzl, Corrine LeQuere, Roger Dargaville,
Dorothee Bakker, Kitack Lee, Scott Doney, Sylvie Roy, Dick Feely, Jeff Hare
SOLAS links closely with other projects in attendance:
GEOTRACES
IMBER
CLIVAR
GEOHAB
SCAR
Various SCOR WG’s
Major SOLAS Activities
SOLAS Summer School 2007
•22nd October- 3rd November
•Scientific committee:
Phil Boyd
Minhan Dai
Mitsuo Uematsu
Maurice Levasseur
Véronique Garçon
Corinne Le Quéré
Peter Liss
Uli Platt
Natalie Mahowald
Eric Saltzman
NZ
China
Japan
Canada
France
UK
UK
Germany
US
US
Institut Scientifique de Cargèse,
Corsica, France
• Register Early
until Dec 31
• Bring students /
post-docs
Data and Project
Management
Major developments for coordinating SOLAS data and activities
European Cooperation in the Field of Scientific and
Technical Research (COST Action 735)
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Supports the creation of air-sea flux data products for three research
areas (parallel to SOLAS Foci)
Network of researchers / Workshops / Coordinating Meetings
€ 50k - 70k per year for 5 years (begins October 2006)
1. Consolidate current knowledge of air-sea interactions.
2. Identify gaps and stimulate new research.
3. Provide a framework into which new data and process-understanding
can be assimilated.
4. Develop tools for production of global air-sea fluxes of climate-relevant
compounds.
Major developments for coordinating SOLAS data and activities
UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
UK SOLAS Knowledge Transfer (KT)
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Data Integrator position filled in November 2006 (Tom Bell)
Coordinates with BODC, Met Office Hadley Centre, and CASIX
Parallels and works closely with COST Action 735
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Compile air-sea flux datasets into a common framework.
Intercalibrate and compare data sets and methods, assessing errors.
Compare data products with research users’ model outputs.
Facilitate inclusion of chemical and biological knowledge of air-sea gas
fluxes into coupled models.
Assess the role of the oceans in regulating air quality and the
atmosphere’s oxidation capacity.
Synthesise knowledge of likely changes in air-sea exchange under
various global change scenarios.
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6.
Tracking SOLAS Projects and Products
S OLA S Activity
Contacts
Activity Ti tle
Timetable
Study Location
Collaborations
Climate, Weather, and Hazard
Relevant Compound s
Processes
Infrastructure, Resources, and
Instruments
Logistics and Study Description
Progr am Linkages
Synthesis and Modeling
Reporting and Publi cations
Funding and Support
Comments and Notes:
Weblinks
Future Activities
IMP2 Template
Endorsement
Tracking SOLAS Projects and Products
Acknowledgement
Inventory
SOLAS Data Management Team
Doug Wallace (Outgoing Chair); Juan Brown (Incoming Chair)
Rik Wanninkhof, Claire Reeves, Alex Kosyr, Tom Bell, Phil Williamson, Jeff
Hare, Gwen Moncoiffe, Lu Wang
• Evaluate and document data products and data handling requirements
 Develop practical policy for the documentation of models and model products
 Recommend a common data reporting and sharing policy suitable for adoption
by projects seeking International SOLAS endorsement
 Ensure that procedures are established to allow quantification of data
uncertainties and quality (metadata requirements)
 Make recommendations concerning data centres that are particularly suitable
for SOLAS needs
 Work with national SOLAS PIs, data centres, the SOLAS IPO and national
funding agencies to coordinate an international network of data managers that
are hands-on with SOLAS data.
SOLAS Data Management Principles:
1. Use existing knowledge and infrastructure.
2. Use internationally agreed standards and protocols..
3. Work with other projects towards establishing an integrated data
management system and policy.
4. Plan ahead for rapid data assembly.
5. Data managers will support data gatherers.
6. Data should be made available rapidly. Data users will consult and
collaborate with data providers.
7. Data will be reported with metadata and quality flags.
8. Model documentation, model output and models will be made
available to the community.
9. Participation in SOLAS research requires submission of data to a
SOLAS- approved database or centre.
The Data Management Team
• Document likely data products and requirements
• Establish data reporting policy (time limits, incentives and
enforcements, access rights, meta-data requirements, etc).
• Implement a practical policy for documentation of
models and model-derived products.
• Design a data reporting and retrieval structure that is
efficient and compatible with the observational issues.
• Negotiate with nations & funding agencies to organize,
fund and implement the data management structure.
• Develop a data management manual (guides to reporting,
quality assessment, data and model access procedures).
Class 1: Geographically/temporally resolved data.
• Hydrographic data collection from ships, time-series and
autonomous platforms.
• Remote sensing data from a wide range of sensors
and satellites.
• Time-series of meteorological and atmospheric
chemistry data.
• Data collected from aircraft and balloons.
• Data collected from volunteer observing ships.
• Data products from operational ocean and
atmosphere models.
Class 2: Data from Experiments and Mechanistic Studies.
• Mesocosm and mesoscale patch experiments.
• Studies of gas exchange.
Class 3: Models, Model Documentation and Model Output.
Data Managemen t Di scussion
1. Present the status of your project in terms of management of data and/or metadata.
2. Has your project done anything to encourage visualizat ion of project data?
3. Is your project keeping track of cruises and collect ing informat ion about the cruises?
4. Has your project discussed da ta archiving with a World Data Center yet and/or
involved in W DC st aff in your data management discussions?
GO OS Discussion
1. Does your project have ongoing interactions with GOOS?
2. Have youhad any GOOS scientists or staff attend a project SSC meeting, or have any
project SSC members or IPO staff participated in a GOOS meeting?
3. Do you have a link to any element of GOOS on your project Web site?
4. Has your SSC discussed what is, or will be, available from GOOS and other systems?
5. Has SSC identified specific GOOS obs to which your scientists would like access?
6. What research observation systems would your project like to see become operational?
Time-Se rie s Stations
1. Will implementation of your project require observations from time-series stations? If
so, in what locations?
2. How will such stations be supported?
3. Has your project identified time-series sites that are a priority for achieving goals?
Southe rn Oce an Rese arch and O bservations
1. What activities has your project undertaken or planned for the Southern Ocean? Have
you coordinated your Southern Ocean research with other projects?
Do you have any special plans for the 3rd International Polar Year in 2007-2009or later?
2. What is the status of planning and funding for your project's Southern Ocean cruises,
observations, and experiments?
Education and C apacity Building
1. What activities, plans, and ideas does your project have in relation to education and
capacity building?
2. How are you funding your educ ation and capacity-building activities?
Satellite Availability and Needs
1. Is your project using satellite data or does it plan to do so?
2. Which satellite obse rvations are most crucial fo r your pro ject to meet its goals?