ABOUT US

Mission

To develop a practical, integrated approach for observing air-sea exchanges associated with the Energy, Water, Carbon and Life Cycles.

Vision

To have a pathway to Get Involved in Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction Science for Sustainable Development.

History

OASIS started gaining momentum at OceanObs’19, the decadal conference that assembled more than 1,500 ocean scientists, engineers, and users of ocean observing technologies from 74 countries and across many disciplines. After the OceanObs’19 conference, the air-sea flux community began to grow, and several individuals came together to draft a SCOR working group proposal. In October 2020, the proposal was selected as a SCOR WG. Since then, we have organized our first teleconferences and begun developing our implementation plan. In June 2021, OASIS officially became a UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development Programme.

Objectives

Monitor and predict surface ocean conditions and the ocean’s influence on global weather and climate on timescales of days-seasons-decades.

Track surface ocean carbon dioxide, ocean acidification, oceanic deoxygenation, nutrient concentrations, and measures of biodiversity.

Characterize oceanic and atmospheric processes and feedbacks that modulate surface fluxes of energy, moisture and carbon dioxide, and interact with the ecosystem.