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SOLAS
Aims and objectives
The UK SOLAS programme aims to advance understanding of the mutual interactions between the atmosphere and the oceans, focusing on chemical exchanges that affect both ocean productivity and atmospheric composition and climate.
Targets
- to identify important trace gas production and loss processes in the surface ocean
- to determine the impact of dynamic physical, chemical and biological processes on trace gas production and breakdown in the marine environment, with particular emphasis on the microbial loop
- to improve understanding of the atmospheric transport, cycling and deposition of dust and nutrients
- to assess the importance of marine sources of aerosols and influences on their dynamics
- to determine the role of trace gas emissions in modifying the oxidising capacity of the atmosphere
- to reduce the existing uncertainty in the air-sea fluxes of trace gases
- to determine the role of the sea surface microlayer in regulating material fluxes to the atmosphere.
Further information about this programme can be found by following the links below: