SOLAS NorwayData Management

Benjamin PfeilCARBOOCEAN /SOLAS Norway data manager

Bjerknes Centre for Climate ResearchUniversity of Bergen, Norway

Outline

• Projects / scientists involved• Working Groups• Data• Parameters

Projects National funding

• ECOBE - funding SAMI test on moorings• NORCLIM - Inventories and FOCUS 3

WG3• GFI-SUP - air - sea exchange• BCCR-SSF - station Mike, G.O. Sars,

Mesocosms and C-modelling• GFI-KJOS - Overall support• Projects in IPY is starting now (BIAC)

International funding• CARBOOCEAN - Nuka, Trans Carrier, 75

North Section• COST-735 - Euro - SOLAS• New 2007? Ocean acidification proposal

EPOCA

International activities

IPCC-report contributing on climate and C-cycleSOLAS-IMBER-CLIVAR-PAGES research

People directly involved in SOLAS science:

Prof. Truls Johannessen, UoB-GFI-BCCRProf. Christoph Heinze, UoB-GFI-BCCRProf. Peter Haugan, UoB-GFIProf. Helge Drange, NERSC-UoB-GFISenior Engineer Craig Neill, BCCR-UOB-GFIResearch Scientist Richard Bellerby, BCCR-UoB-GFIResearch Scientist Alistar Jenkins, BCCR-UoB-GFIResearch Scientist Are Olsen, BCCR-UoB-GFIResearch Scientist Ingunn Skjelvan, BCCR-UoB-GFIResearch Scientist Yngve Børsheim, IMRPost Dr. Karen Assman, BCCR-UoB-GFIPost Dr. Abirahman S.M. Omar, UoB-GFI-BCCR+ Dr. Students and master students

Data Manager: Benjamin Pfeil, CARBOOCEAN and SOLAS

1. Surface ocean systems VOS line data (continious measurements)

2. Interior ocean carbon storage Repeated section 75 N (discrete measurements) 3. Carbon cycle climate sensitivities and feedbacks Mesocosm experiments (experimental data)

Contributions to SOLAS scienceWG by WG:

Current VOS Lines(VOS = Volunteer Observing Ships)

Total: 28

G.O. Sars DataBarents Sea, Nordic Seas, North Atlantic

Station M

Data from discrete measurements

Repeated section 75 North

Mesocosm experiments: Elevated

CO2/pH changes and Carbon cycling/ecosystem responses

10m

S=29.8

S=31.3

Sediment Trap

Air lif t

COCO22 regulationregulation

5m190190

370370700700

pCOpCO22 ((ppmvppmv))

Experimental design, Ulf Riebesell et al.

Large Scale Mesocosm Facility, University of Bergen, Norway

Coastal / inshore mesocosms

Heinze, C., 2004, Simulating oceanic CaCO3 export production in the greenhouse, Geophysical Research Letters, 31, L16308

acidification feedbacks, A1B scenario:

less CaCO3

production ca. -20 ppm and less particle ballast ca. +20 ppmcompensate each other

POTENTIAL LIMIT?

CaCO3 export production Data from Model output1750

2004

2100

2250

ballast effect

Data and parameters

VOS line and other underway data

Data holdings from: Nuka Arctica, Trans Carrier and Norcliff VOS line

Plus additional underway measurements from various cruises (continious from R/V GO SARS)

Typical parameters:

Data from discrete measurements (bottle data)

• Repeated section 75 N

Typical parametersTemperature, salinity, oxygen,

nutrients, TCO2, TALK, pH, CFC, SF6

Mesocosm experiment data

• Various parameters (chemical, biological data)

All data…

is archived in a World Data Centeris archived according to international

agreements (agreement fromTsukuba 2004 (for carbon data), WOCE standards, etc)

is available via the dataportalhttp://solas.dataportal.wdc-mare.org/