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USA
National Contact	Wade McGillis
Email	wrm2102columbia.edu
Website	http://www.us-solas.org
Full Reports (pdf)	Jun 02

 

Introduction

The US component of the Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study (US SOLAS) is set up to further interactions between oceanographers and atmospheric scientists to quantify boundary layer processes. US SOLAS is the national component of the international SOLAS program and will be closely aligned in objectives and overall execution with the international effort.

Current Status

A US SOLAS Advisory Group has been formed. It aims to compose a United States SOLAS Advisory Group Science and Implementation Strategy. The document/plan will be reviewed in time for the 2004 International SOLAS open science October meeting in Halifax Canada.

 

Opportunities for national participation in international SOLAS activities

US SOLAS planning team members have endorsed proposals to collaborate in international SOLAS studies to share unique expertise that resides in the US science community. To date the proposals include direct flux measurements in the Canadian SOLAS Labrador Sea study and deliberate dual tracer work in the New Zealand iron fertilization study.

Links to other SOLAS programmes:

• Canadian SOLAS
• New Zealand SOLAS

 

US SOLAS Planning workshop May 2001

This meeting was attended by over 80 scientists and was attended by over 80 scientists with research interests covering the spectrum of SOLAS research.

From the output of this workshop the draft of the science plan was constructed. The science plan will consist of four chapters covering the themes of the US SOLAS workshop. Drafts of the completed chapters can be downloaded by clicking on the appropriate chapter link. Please send comments to the leads of the chapters.

US SOLAS Workshop report:

• pdf file (735 Kb)
• doc file (3.9 Mb)

Draft Chapters of Science Plan

• Boundary layer physics, lead Wade McGillis and Don Lenchow(lenschowucar.edu)
• Long lived climate relevant compounds (CRCs), in preparation
• Short lived climate relevant compounds (CRCs), in preparation
• Atmospheric effect on marine biogeochemical cycles, lead Doug Capone (caponeusc.edu) and Robert Duce (rduceocean.tamu.edu)

 

US SOLAS Planning team 2000-2004

(click to see members)

The files on the right are short summaries of research directions for SOLAS type efforts produced by the planning team. It is a broad outline of overall issue, including relevance to climate, the key uncertainties, and the ocean-atmosphere connection.

Links to other US Programmes

• US JGOFS
• The Carbon Cycle Science Plan
• The Ocean Carbon Transport, Exchanges and Transformations (OCTET) program
• The Ecological Determinants of Ocean Carbon Cycling (EDOCC)

 

 

US SOLAS research directions (.doc files)

• Boundary Layer CO₂ Dynamics
• Boundary Layer Physics
• The Surface Ocean- Lower Atmosphere Sulfur Cycle
• Atmospheric Connections with the Marine Nitrogen Cycle
• Lower atmosphere - upper ocean halogen dynamics: Processes and Feedbacks
• Ocean Mixed Layer Photochemistry

Other files

• US SOLAS prospectus