The 2^nd International Workshop on Air-Sea Gas Fluxes: Progress and Future Prospects, will be held at IFREMER in Brest, France, on 6-9 September 2016. This is a highly interdisciplinary workshop aimed at bringing the multiple communities (e.g. in situ, remote sensing and modelling) studying air-sea exchange and gas fluxes together to present and discuss recent advances, and common aims, goals and challenges.

Abstract submission deadline: 15 May 2016

After the great success of the 1^st Air-sea Gas Fluxes workshop in 2013, you are now invited to take part in the 2^nd international workshop. The ultimate aim of the workshop is to facilitate and accelerate the research and technology development necessary for an accurate evaluation of the air-sea flux of climate active gases, by identifying key challenges and opportunities and setting appropriate priorities for the scientific community and for supporting and guiding agencies (notably space agencies).

Specific aims of the workshop are:

1.Identifying key challenges facing the air-sea gas flux community:

• Maintaining the ship-based observing system.
• Maintaining the marine earth observation capability.
• Addressing remaining gaps in fundamental knowledge.
• Understanding and addressing the full set of uncertainties.

 2.Identifying opportunities and setting priorities:

• The requirements of the climate science and policy communities.
• New Earth observation technologies and missions.
• New measurement techniques and opportunities for more autonomous measurements.
• New modelling and statistical techniques.
• The rapidly expanding capacity of cloud and other computing architecture.

The workshop organizers solicit oral and poster presentations on all aspects of air-sea gas transfer of any climatically important gases, including reactive gases. We especially encourage research focusing on: Arctic and marginal ice zones, extreme winds, atmospheric modeling and inversion techniques and heat fluxes.

For registration and abstract submission please follow this link:

http://www.oceanflux-ghg.org/Workshop/Registration

For more details on the workshop aims, organizing committees, venue and agenda, please see the workshop site: http://www.oceanflux-ghg.org/Workshop

For any questions about the workshop, please send an email to: oceanflux-workshop(at)ifremer.fr