Introduction to surface ocean-lower atmosphere processes / Corinne Le Queŕe ánd Eric S. Saltzman -- Atmospheric gas phase reactions / Ulrich Platt -- Marine aerosols / Eric S. Saltzman -- Global dust cycle / Andy Ridgwell -- Marine boundary layer clouds / Ulrike Lohmann -- Air-sea gas exchange / P.D. Nightingale -- Ocean circulation / Andrew F. Thompson and Stefan Rahmstorf -- Marine pelagic ecosystems / Osvaldo Ulloa and Carolina Grob -- Ocean nutrients / Philip W. Boyd and Catriona L. Hurd -- Ocean iron cycle / Philip W. Boyd -- Ocean carbon cycle / Laurent Bopp and Corinne Le Queŕe ́-- Dimethylsulfide and climate / M. Vogt and P.S. Liss -- Hydrography and biogeochemistry of the coastal ocean / S.W.A. Naqvi and A.S. Unnikrishnan -- Glacial-interglacial variability in atmospheric CO2 / Karen E. Kohfeld and Andy Ridgwell -- Remote sensing / H. Loisel, C. Jamet, and J. Riedi -- Data assimilation methods / C. Jamet and H. Loisel -- Biogeochemical modeling / Corinne Le Queŕe,́ Laurent Bopp, and Parv Suntharalingam