International SOLAS: Network Progress and

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International SOLAS Network Progress and
Data Management SCOR Summit
Meeting London December 2006
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• Science
• Structure
• National Developments
• Network Activities
• Major SOLAS Endeavors
• Data and Project Management

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• Science

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The Domain of SOLAS Research
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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 Trul
s Johannessen (Norway) Arne Koertzinger
(Germany) Activity is joint w/ IMBER and has 3
sub-groups WG1-Surface Ocean Systems WG2-Interi
or Ocean WG3-Sensitivity (future oceans)
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• Joint Implementation Plan complete (see web
  sites)
• To be printed early 2007
• Meet in Paris in April IOCCP Surface pCO2 and
  Ocean Vulnerability Workshop

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• Structure

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WGNE WGCM WGSF
WCRP Observation Assmilation Panel
WCRP Modelling Panel
Coordinated Observation and Prediction of the
Earth System
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SOLAS Networks in 23 Nations Substantial
Programs Canada Germany Japan UK USA
Sponsors
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SOLAS is developing an African Network Cape
Verde Egypt Ghana Kenya Morocco Nigeria South
Africa Zimbabwe
Future plans include an African-SOLAS Workshop
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• National Developments

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Major NEW SOLAS Funded Program in Germany
Coordinator Douglas Wallace, IFM-GEOMAR Submitte
d Jan 2006 Proposed start Jan
2007 Requested EU 6.5 m over 3 years (12
Institutions, 43 Investigators, 23 sub-projects)
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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

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OUTLINE of Implementation Projects for each
Focus   11 Global Ocean Trace Gas Surveys 12
The North-Atlantic African Dust-Aerosol
Experiment (NAFDAE) 13 Ocean-Atmosphere
Ice-Snowpack (OASIS) 14 Climate Modeling in
SOLAS (CLIMAS)   21 World Ocean Gas Exchange
Process Studies 22 Surface Spray in situ and
modelling studies 23 HiT-US 24 Cape Verde
Air-Sea Interaction Time Series Station   31
Air-Water Carbon and Methane Fluxes in Coastal
Oceans 32 Southern Ocean Carbon Dioxide
Studies 33 Global Surface Carbon Concentration
Surveys 34 Perturbation Experiments   41
Autonomous and Langrangian platforms (ALPS) for
SOLAS 42 Satellites and Model Assimilations 43
Summer School 44 Data Management
US-SOLAS Science Plan
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• Network Activities

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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
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• 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
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• 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
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SOLAS links closely with other projects in
attendance GEOTRACES IMBER CLIVAR GEOHAB SCAR Var
ious SCOR WGs
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• Major SOLAS Activities

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SOLAS Summer School 2007

• 22nd October- 3rd November
• Scientific committee

Phil Boyd NZ Minhan Dai China Mitsuo
Uematsu Japan Maurice Levasseur Canada Véronique
Garçon France Corinne Le Quéré UK Peter Liss UK
Uli Platt Germany Natalie Mahowald US Eric
Saltzman US
Institut Scientifique de Cargèse, Corsica, France
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• Register Early until Dec 31
• Bring students / post-docs

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• Data and Project Management

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Major developments for coordinating SOLAS data
and activities

• European Cooperation in the Field of Scientific
  and Technical Research (COST Action 735)
• 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.

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Major developments for coordinating SOLAS data
and activities

• UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
• UK SOLAS Knowledge Transfer (KT)
• 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
• 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 atmospheres oxidation capacity.
• Synthesise knowledge of likely changes in air-sea
  exchange under various global change scenarios.

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Tracking SOLAS Projects and Products
IMP2 Template
Endorsement
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Tracking SOLAS Projects and Products
Acknowledgement
Inventory
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SOLAS Data Management TeamDoug 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.

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• SOLAS Data Management Principles
• 1. Use existing knowledge and infrastructure.
• Use internationally agreed standards and
  protocols..
• Work with other projects towards establishing an
  integrated data
• management system and policy.
• Plan ahead for rapid data assembly.
• Data managers will support data gatherers.
• 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.
• Model documentation, model output and models will
  be made

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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).
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• 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.

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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.
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