International SOLAS: Network Progress and Data Management

SCOR Summit MeetingLondon December 2006

1. Science2. Structure3. National Developments4. Network Activities5. Major SOLAS Endeavors6. Data and Project Management

Science

The Domain of SOLAS ResearchThe 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 SystemsWG2-Interior OceanWG3-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

WGNEWGCM WGSF

SOLAS 2001 ->

WCRPObservationAssmilation

Panel

WCRPModelling

Panel

CliC 2000

GEWEX 1988

CLIVAR 1995

SPARC 1992

Coordinated Observation and Prediction of the Earth System

Sponsors:

SOLAS Networks in 23 Nations

Substantial Programs:

CanadaGermanyJapanUKUSA

SOLAS is developing an African Network

Cape VerdeEgyptGhanaKenyaMoroccoNigeriaSouth AfricaZimbabwe

Future plans include an African-SOLAS Workshop

National Developments

Coordinator: Douglas Wallace, IFM-GEOMARSubmitted: Jan 2006Proposed start: Jan 2007

Requested: EU 6.5 m over 3 years

(12 Institutions, 43 Investigators, 23 sub-projects)

Major NEW SOLAS Funded Program in Germany

SOLAS-JapanSOLAS-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

 

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

US-SOLASScience Plan

Network Activities

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/INI Review of Anthropogenic Nitrogen Impacts on the Open Ocean

SOLAS, NOAA, INI and SCOR sponsored

DMS model inter-comparison workshop

Brussels, 4-8 December 2006

• Origin: Discussion forum at SOLAS Open Science meeting, Halifax Oct 2004

Ad-hoc committee: C. Lancelot, M. Levasseur and A. VezinaY. Le Clainche drafted as scientific coordinator, V. Schoemann as local organizer

• With support from SOLAS International Project Office and BELSPO

Conduct a systematic comparison of DMS ecosystem models against common data sets to spur improvements and indicate needed observations to better constrain DMS dynamics.

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

• With support from IOCCP, SOLAS, IMBER and GCP

SOLAS links closely with other projects in attendance:GEOTRACESIMBERCLIVARGEOHABSCARVarious SCOR WG’s

Major SOLAS Activities

SOLAS Summer School 2007SOLAS Summer School 2007

•22nd October- 3rd November

•Scientific committee:

Institut Scientifique de Cargèse, Corsica, France

Phil Boyd NZMinhan Dai ChinaMitsuo Uematsu JapanMaurice Levasseur CanadaVéronique Garçon FranceCorinne Le Quéré UKPeter Liss UK Uli Platt GermanyNatalie Mahowald USEric Saltzman US

• Register Early until Dec 31

• Bring students / post-docs

Data and Project Management

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

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

1. Compile air-sea flux datasets into a common framework.2. Intercalibrate and compare data sets and methods, assessing errors.3. Compare data products with research users’ model outputs.4. Facilitate inclusion of chemical and biological knowledge of air-sea gas

fluxes into coupled models.5. Assess the role of the oceans in regulating air quality and the

atmosphere’s oxidation capacity.6. Synthesise knowledge of likely changes in air-sea exchange under

various global change scenarios.

Major developments for coordinating SOLAS data and activities

SOLAS Activity Activity TitleContacts

Timetable

Study Location

Collaborations

Climate, Weather, and HazardRelevant Compounds

Processes

Infrastructure, Resources, andInstruments

Logistics and Study Description

Program Linkages

Synthesis and Modeling

Reporting and Publications

Funding and Support

Comments and Notes:

Weblinks

Future Activities

IMP2 Template

Tracking SOLAS Projects and Products

Endorsement

AcknowledgementTracking SOLAS Projects and Products

Inventory

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.

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 Management Discussion 1. Present the status of your project in terms of management of data and/or metadata.

2. Has your project done anything to encourage visualization of project data?

3. Is your project keeping track of cruises and collecting information about the cruises?

4. Has your project discussed data archiving with a World Data Center yet and/orinvolved in WDC staff in your data management discussions?

GOOS Discussion1. Does your project have ongoing interactions with GOOS?

2. Have you had any GOOS scientists or staff attend a project SSC meeting, or have anyproject 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-Series Stations1. Will implementation of your project require observations from time-series stations? Ifso, 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?

Southern Ocean Research and Observations1. What activities has your project undertaken or planned for the Southern Ocean? Haveyou coordinated your Southern Ocean research with other projects?

Do you have any special plans for the 3rd International Polar Year in 2007-2009 or later?

2. What is the status of planning and funding for your project's Southern Ocean cruises,observations, and experiments?

Education and Capacity Building1. What activities, plans, and ideas does your project have in relation to education andcapacity building?

2. How are you funding your education and capacity-building activities?

Satellite Availability and Needs1. Is your project using satellite data or does it plan to do so?

2. Which satellite observations are most crucial for your project to meet its goals?