UK Surface Ocean - Lower Atmosphere Study (UK SOLAS)
Project 19
Factors influencing the oxidative chemistry of the marine boundary layer
Principal Investigator — Paul Monks
Objectives
- To quantify the fast photochemical budget of the oxidative chemistry in the tropical marine boundary layer.
- To quantify the roles of oxygenated species in photochemistry, and in the radical budget of the remote marine atmosphere.
- To determine the controlling features of tropical marine boundary layer budgets for photochemically active compounds.
- To investigate the spatial distribution of glyoxal over the lower atmosphere.
Activities
Fieldwork has included targeted deployments at the UK SOLAS Cape Verde observatory. Measurements have included:
- oxygenated volatile organic compounds (OVOCs)
- ozone and methane
- glyoxal
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Related UK SOLAS pages at BODC
| Project overview | Cruise programme | |
| Data centre's role | Data inventories | |
| Data policy | Data delivery | |
| Data submission | Other links | |
| Data centre processing | Knowledge transfer | |
| Final report |
Related external links
| International SOLAS | Quantifying and Understanding the Earth System (QUEST) | |
| NERC SOLAS | Paul Monks , University of Leicester |
