SOLAS
Summary of research findings from this concluded project are available here
SOLAS (Surface-Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study) is an international programme to study climate processes at the interface between the ocean and the atmosphere. The composition and physical properties of aerosol in the marine atmospheric boundary layer (MABL) are shaped by complex processes of trace gas chemistry, aerosol formation, ageing, deposition and transport occurring on global scales. In this project we are using GLOMAP to quantify how chemical and meteorological processes control the aerosol size distribution, particle composition, CCN spectrum and aerosol spatial and temporal patterns of variability. The principal outcomes of this work will be a complete assessment of our understanding of MABL aerosol as well as a fully evaluated offline global aerosol/chemistry model and an improved version of the UK Unified Model (climate model) for further SOLAS investigations. Part of our effort will be dedicated to producing size and composition-resolved aerosol predictions for oceanic regions of relevance to intensive field campaigns, thereby aiding the analysis and scaling up of observations made in other projects.
Publications from this project:
Arctic marine boundary layer aerosol
DMS and the impact on the CCN seasonal cycle