Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: The Observing Air–Sea Interactions Strategy (OASIS) is a new United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development programme working to develop a practical, integrated approach for observing air–sea interactions globally for improved Earth system (including ecosystem) forecasts, CO2 uptake assessments called for by the Paris Agreement, and invaluable surface ocean information for decision makers. Our “Theory of Change” relies upon leveraged multi-disciplinary activities, partnerships, and capacity strengthening. Recommendations from >40 OceanObs’19 community papers and a series of workshops have been consolidated into three interlinked Grand Ideas for creating #1: a globally distributed network of mobile air–sea observing platforms built around an expanded array of long-term time-series stations; #2: a satellite network, with high spatial and temporal resolution, optimized for measuring air–sea fluxes; and #3: improved representation of air–sea coupling in a hierarchy of Earth system models. OASIS activities are organized across five Theme Teams: (1) Observing Network Design & Model Improvement; (2) Partnership & Capacity Strengthening; (3) UN Decade OASIS Actions; (4) Best Practices & Interoperability Experiments; and (5) Findable–Accessible–Interoperable–Reusable (FAIR) models, data, and OASIS products. Stakeholders, including researchers, are actively recruited to participate in Theme Teams to help promote a predicted, safe, clean, healthy, resilient, and productive ocean.
Source: ICES Journal of Marine Science
Authors: M F Cronin, S Swart, C A Marandino, C Anderson, P Browne, S Chen, W R Joubert, U Schuster, R Venkatesan, C I Addey, O Alves, F Ardhuin, S Battle, M A Bourassa, Z Chen, M Chory, C Clayson, R B de Souza, M du Plessis, M Edmondson, J B Edson, S T Gille, J Hermes, V Hormann, S A Josey, M Kurz, T Lee, F Maicu, E H Moustahfid, S-A Nicholson, E S Nyadjro, J Palter, R G Patterson, S G Penny, L P Pezzi, N Pinardi, J E J Reeves Eyre, N Rome, A C Subramanian, C Stienbarger, T Steinhoff, A J Sutton, H Tomita, S M Wills, C Wilson, L Yu
Institutions: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, University of Cape Town, University of Gothenburg, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Ministry of Natural Resources, Second Institute of Oceanography, State Key Laboratory of Satellite Ocean Environment Dynamics, South African Weather Service, University of Exeter, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Ministry of Earth Sciences, National Centre for Coastal Research, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Xiamen University, State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Bureau of Meteorology, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Ifremer, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Florida State University, Ocean University of China, Consortium For Ocean Leadership, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, South African Environmental Observation Network, National Oceanography Centre, NOAA Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, University of Bologna, NOAA Integrated Ocean Observing System, NOAA Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing Program, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Northern Gulf Institute, Stennis Space Center, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Mississippi State University, University of Rhode Island, Charles Darwin University, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Sofar Ocean (United States), Earth Resources Technology (United States), NOAA National Centers for Environmental Prediction, NOAA National Weather Service, NOAA Climate Prediction Center, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, NORCE Research AS, Hokkaido University, University of Washington, Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean, & Ecosystem Studies
Language: English
Subfield: Oceanography
Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,260
Funder: National Science Foundation
OpenAlex ID: W4297409705