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SOLAS and SOCOM: Understanding interactions and feedbacks between the ocean and atmosphere
SOLAS and SOCOM: Understanding interactions and feedbacks between the ocean and atmosphere
Session ID#: 259748
Session Description:
The ocean-atmosphere boundary is the crucial setting for a range of processes with significant impacts on oceanography, atmospheric and climate science. The international Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS) program, now beginning to implement its third decadal science plan, promotes collaboration and interdisciplinary research within and across this boundary. A particularly important process is the air-sea gas exchange of CO2, which results in approximately 25% of anthropogenic CO2 emissions being absorbed by the ocean, lessening atmospheric accumulation and fueling ocean acidification. The Surface Ocean CO₂ Mapping intercomparison initiative (SOCOMv2) addresses challenges in quantifying the ocean carbon sink, an effort compatible with SOLAS goals. In addition, SOLAS research also includes investigating the feedbacks between atmospheric and marine chemistry, aerosol exchange and impact, sea-surface microlayer processes, and ocean-sea ice-snow-atmosphere interactions. This session seeks contributions that highlight recent research achievements related to any of the SOLAS and SOCOMv2 themes, particularly observational, machine learning and modeling studies of processes linking the surface ocean and the lower atmosphere. Advancements associated with improving quantification of global and regional air-sea CO₂ fluxes and the ocean carbon sink are especially relevant. However, any research examining the SOLAS domain, regardless of its SOLAS or SOCOMv2 affiliation, is welcome.
Co-Sponsor(s):
- Climate and Ocean Change -
- Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry -
- Ocean Technologies and Observatories -
Index Terms:
0312 Air/sea constituent fluxes [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
3339 Ocean/atmosphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
4262 Ocean observing systems [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4806 Carbon cycling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
Student/Early Career Chair: Thea Hatlen Heimdal, Columbia University and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, New York, United States
Primary Chair: Rachel Stanley, Wellesley College, Wellesley, United States
Co-chairs: William L Miller1, Christa A Marandino2, Amanda R Fay3 and Thea Hatlen Heimdal3, (1)University of Georgia, Department of Marine Science, Athens, GA, United States(2)GEOMAR, Marine Biogeochemistry, Kiel, Germany(3)Columbia University and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, New York, United States
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