July 11, 2025
OC4C at the Ocean Sciences Meeting 2026
As part of our SOCOMv2 initiative, a dedicated session is being organized at the Ocean Sciences Meeting 2026 (OSM26)
Our session at Ocean Sciences Meeting 2026 (OSM26) is called: AI005 – SOLAS and SOCOM: Understanding interactions and feedbacks between the ocean and atmosphere (abstract below) and will be co-chaired by our Columbia University leads Dr Thea Hatlen Heimdal and Dr Amanda Fay.
This session invites cutting-edge research on air-sea interactions, including CO₂ fluxes, aerosol exchange, and ocean-atmosphere feedbacks—spanning observational, machine learning, and modeling approaches. Whether you’re working within SOLAS, SOCOMv2, or on related themes, we welcome your contributions to help advance our understanding of the ocean-atmosphere interface.
Drawing your attention to Ocean Sciences session, AI005 focused on all things ocean-atmosphere interactions—CO₂ fluxes, aerosols, sea ice, the microlayer, and more. If your work connects to SOLAS, SOCOMv2, or just explores the surface ocean and lower atmosphere, we’d love to see your abstract. Observational, modeling, machine learning—bring it on!
We would greatly appreciate your support in promoting the session (see below) within your networks to help increase visibility and encourage participation.
ABSRACT: Understanding interactions and feedbacks between the ocean and atmosphere
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.
