Workshop on ‘Frontiers in ocean-atmosphere exchange: Air sea interface and fluxes of mass and energy’: submit an abstract by 15 March

Wednesday, March 15, 2017 to Sunday, March 19, 2017
Event City: 
Cargèse
France
Event Description: 

Ocean-atmosphere fluxes of momentum, heat, freshwater, gases and aerosols play a critical role in the regulation of climate.  The problem of adequately describing air-sea fluxes is complex, and simplistic parameterizations are not sufficient to represent the fluxes in models.  Uncertainties in air-sea exchanges constrain our ability to understand and model our changing climate. It is therefore necessary to come to a mechanistic understanding of the processes affecting exchange of mass and energy across the air-sea interface from nano-to-global scales.

This workshop will address the issues surrounding air-sea fluxes of mass and energy.

Topics covered will be:

- Developments in air-sea flux observations. 

- Translating upper ocean turbulence observations into parameterisations and models. 

- The role of waves in modifying air-sea fluxes.

- The sea surface microlayer and its effect on air-sea exchange processes

A detailed programme will be developed based on the abstracts we receive.

This workshop falls within the scope of the SOLAS-Science Core Theme 2.  Further support is given by ESA and WCRP.

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