Grand Idea 2:

Satellites Optimized for Air-Sea Fluxes

Guiding Questions

  1. What is needed from the in situ network to construct & validate sat-flux products?
  2. Is it possible to create ocean-based WMO fiduciary reference stations? Supersites?
  3. What intensive field programs are needed for each OASIS-relevant satellite proposal?
  4. How can these OASIS-relevant satellite proposals be complementary?
  5. What is needed from a System of satellites for OASIS goals? How can OASIS help?

Task Team Leadership

Theme Team Leads: Sarah Gille (SIO, UCSD), Lisan Yu (WHOI), Bia Villas Bôas (early career, Colorado School of Mines), Emily Hayden (early career, Oregon State University)

Program Office Support: info@airseaobs.org

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Terms of Reference

Grand Idea #2 seeks to improve air-sea interaction observations from satellites through cross-community integration, interdisciplinary collaboration, education, and communication. In order to strengthen advocacy for new sensors and data products that meet a diverse set of needs, the working group advocates for increased communication across the discipline-spanning, air-sea interactions community. By supporting the development of sustained collaborations within the modeling, assimilation, and in-situ flux communities, Grand Idea #2 aims to increase implementation of satellite air-sea fluxes, and advance their validation, intercomparison, and benchmarking to strengthen their use in research and operations. Finally, Grand Idea #2 is committed to exploring opportunities for educating the next-generation of scientists, and building community through outreach and communication.

Meetings:

  • Coordination of working group: ~quarterly meetings of working group leads
  • Webinar coordination: ~quarterly meetings of webinar steering committee (a slightly larger group)
  • OASIS leadership: participation in scheduled OASIS leadership meetings (roughly monthly)

Terms of Reference:

  • Working group leads (2-3 years)?
  • Webinar steering committee (2-3 years, rotating)

  • Advocate for development of new satellite-based sensors and data products that meet a broad range of scientific needs.

  • Support collaborations between satellite, modeling, assimilation, and in situ flux communities on weather and climate timescales.

  • Support validation, intercomparison, and benchmarking of satellite air-sea fluxes to strengthen their use in research and operations.

  • Promote openly accessible educational resources on the foundations of air-sea fluxes from space (e.g. short videos, possible summer school, tutorials [Jupyter notebooks]).

  • Communicate cutting edge satellite air-sea interactions research through an ongoing webinar series.

  • Schedule community events (e.g. town hall meetings, pre-conference workshops, etc.) to build connections and to share knowledge within the air-sea interaction community.

  • Provide guidance to the modeling community on best practices for using satellite air-sea fluxes.

    ○ Establish a working group with the goal to develop a directory of global satellite-based data products, with guidance and tutorials on how to choose and use products.

  • Explore opportunities for educating the next generation of air-sea scientists, for example through short educational videos, summer schools, etc. Possibilities include:

    ○ Cataloging existing resources

    ○ Developing new materials

    ○ Coordinating across OASIS via a targeted working group

  • Support community interaction through a continuing webinar series and webinar video recordings released via youtube.