OS53A:
From QuikSCAT to RapidSCAT: Recent Accomplishments in Air-Sea Interaction and Climate Variability II Posters

Session ID#: 2777

Friday, 19 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Not an Option (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Mark A Bourassa, Florida State Univ, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Tallahassee, United States, Tong Lee, JPL, Pasadena, United States and Frank J Wentz, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA, United States
Primary Convener:  Mark A Bourassa, Florida State Univ, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Tallahassee, United States
Co-conveners:  Tong Lee, JPL, Pasadena, United States and Frank J Wentz, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • C - Cryosphere
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

0312 Air/sea constituent fluxes [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0750 Sea ice [CRYOSPHERE]
1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4275 Remote sensing and electromagnetic processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Rain-Induced Sea Surface Winds: What Can We Learn from Satellite Scatterometer Data? (8343)
Gregory P King1, Wenming Lin1, Marcos Portabella1, Patrick Bunn2, Ad Stoffelen3, Anton Verhoef2 and Jur Vogelzang2, (1)Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain, (2)Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, Netherlands, (3)Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, 3730, Netherlands
 
Stochastic Ocean Eddy Perturbations in a Coupled General Circulation Model. (16310)
Nicola Howe1, Paul Williams2, Jonathan M Gregory3 and Robin S Smith2, (1)University of Reading, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom, (2)University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, (3)Met Office Hadley Centre and National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
 
Influence of Mesoscale Ocean Wind Variability on Tropical Atmospheric Convection (13606)
Stella Choi, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, Stephen W Nesbitt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Climate, Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, United States, Timothy J Lang, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States and Themis Chronis, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
 
Impact of East Asian Winter and Australian Summer Monsoons on the Enhanced Surface Westerlies over the Western Tropical Pacific Ocean Preceding the El Niño Onset (13664)
Yangxing Zheng, Florida St Univ-COAPS, Tallahassee, FL, United States, Renhe Zhang, CAMS Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China and Mark A Bourassa, Florida State University, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Tallahassee, FL, United States
 
Using Daily Ocean Wind Vector and Speed Measurements to Estimate the Diurnal Cycle Modes (16437)
Joe J Turk1, Svetla M Hristova-Veleva2 and Ziad S Haddad2, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
 
Relation Between the Large-Scale Atmospheric Variability and Ocean Circulation in the Nordic Seas (16466)
Dmitry S Dukhovskoy, NOAA Boulder, National Weather Service, Office of Modeling and Development, Boulder, United States, Mark A Bourassa, Florida State University, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Tallahassee, FL, United States and Andrey Yu Proshutinsky, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, United States
 
Two-Look Polarimetric (2LP) Microwave Radiometers for Ocean Vector Wind Retrieval (18766)
Frank J Wentz1, Kyle Hilburn2, Thomas Meissner1 and Shannon Elizabeth Brown3, (1)Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA, United States, (2)Colorado State University, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
 
Improving Ku-band Scatterometer Ocean Surface Wind Direction Retrievals in Tropical Cyclones (27335)
Ralph C Foster, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, Jun Zhang, Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies Miami, Miami, FL, United States and Peter G Black, NRL, Monterey, CA, United States
 
Sea-Change in Ocean Observations on Moored Buoys from the National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) (3059)
Richard H Bouchard1, James Elliott2, Daniel Pounder2 and Kevin Kern3, (1)Unaffiliated, Retired, Gulfport, MS, United States, (2)Pacific Architects and Engineers (PAE), Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (3)National Data Buoy Center, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States
 
High Resolution Wind and SST Coupling: Impacts on Ekman Upwelling (28262)
Mark A Bourassa, Florida State University, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Tallahassee, FL, United States and Paul J Hughes, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States
 
Wind, mixed-layer depth and Chl-a variability in the Southern Ocean (28584)
Prof. Sarah T Gille, PhD, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, United States, Magdalena M Carranza, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Peter J. S. Franks, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, James B Girton, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States and Kenneth S Johnson, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, United States
 
Eddy diffusivities from overturning in the North Pacific Ocean (2754)
Haruka Nakano and Jiro Yoshida, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan
 
Near-Inertial Surface Currents and their influence on Surface Dispersion in the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico near the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (19249)
Matt Gough, RSMAS, Miami, FL, United States, Ad Reniers, Delft University of Technology, Hydrolic Engineering, Delft, Netherlands, James H MacMahan, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, United States and Stephan Dixon Howden, University of Southern Mississippi, School of Ocean Science and Engineering, Hydrography Science Research Center, Hattiesburg, United States
 
Inter-annual and decadal fluctuations of the Kuroshio in East China Sea and connection with wind and surface heat flux (21146)
Jia Wang and Lie-Yauw Oey, NCU National Central University of Taiwan, Jhongli, Taiwan
 
Future evolution of thermodynamics and stratification in the North Sea, effects of North Atlantic Oscillation (24920)
Nikesh Narayan, Birgit A Klein and Holger Klein, BSH Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency, Hamburg, Germany
 
A Coastal Niño/Niña Phenomenon Off the Coast of Senegal (West Africa) (7687)
Pascal Oettli, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, Yushi Morioka, JAMSTEC, APL, Kanagawa, Japan, Takeshi Doi, JAMSTEC, Kanagawa, Japan and Toshio Yamagata, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Japan
 
The interannual variability of the Brazil Current and links to the large-scale circulation in the South Atlantic (31118)
Marlos P Goes1, Gustavo Jorge Goni2, Mauricio M Mata3 and Molly O'Neil Baringer2, (1)Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, (2)NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL, United States, (3)Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Instituto de Oceanografia, Rio Grande, Brazil
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