SOLAS Data Management

Data collected from SOLAS related projects can be of great use to other researchers within the SOLAS community. Together with SOLAS Project Integration, the SOLAS IPO have initiated a metadata portal http://gcmd.nasa.gov/portals/solas/ for SOLAS-related field projects. Through this facility, researchers in the SOLAS community can identify useful projects, information and data that have taken place.

The SOLAS International Project Office (SOLAS IPO) has developed a data management policy, to which it strongly recommends the scientific SOLAS community adheres.


Global SOLAS Flux Products

In addition SOLAS Project Integration is facilitating the production of global datasets in order to best-quantify estimates of air-sea fluxes of gases and particles. For more information go to the Project Integration website.

The aim of the SOLAS Project Integrator (Dr Shital Rohekar) is to bring together SOLAS results in order to produce data products, largely in terms of quantitative estimates of air-sea fluxes of the gases and particles measured. These data products can then be used by policy makers and the scientific community to assess the role of ocean-atmosphere interaction in climate, air quality and ocean biogeochemistry.

In order to make such flux calculations it is necessary to know both the concentration fields driving them and the speed of exchange between atmosphere and ocean. Both these components of the flux calculation are being intensively studied in the SOLAS programme. By bringing this work together at the international level the value of the work of individual nations will be greatly enhanced to the benefit of both scientific research and policy formulation.

It is important to note that this is effectively a community-led activity, coordinated by the SOLAS Project Integrator. It involves the worldwide network of SOLAS researchers, with links through the main SOLAS focus groups - the Implementation Working Groups (IMPs) one, two and three, and various national SOLAS structures.

All contributors will be fully acknowledged for their contribution to global flux products, i.e. co-authorship for each relevant data set and publication(s) arising therefrom.

The Data Integration project is supported by: