OS31C:
Ocean Submesoscale Processes and Potential Scientific Breakthrough: Simulations, Observations, and Applications I Posters

Session ID#: 3141

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Not an Option (Moscone West)
Chair:  Tamay M Ozgokmen, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States
Primary Convener:  Patrice Klein, Cnrs/Ifremer/LOPS, Plouzané, France
Co-conveners:  Bo Qiu, Univ Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, United States, Jorge Vazquez, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Mike Chin, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • NG - Nonlinear Geophysics
Index Terms:

4490 Turbulence [NONLINEAR GEOPHYSICS]
4520 Eddies and mesoscale processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4528 Fronts and jets [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4572 Upper ocean and mixed layer processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
OS31C-1000
Importance of 3D Processes Near the Ocean’s Surface for Material Transport (Invited) (4959)
Tamay M Ozgokmen, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States
 
OS31C-1001
Characteristics and Seasonality of the Submesoscale Regime in the Gulf Stream Region (18498)
Jean A. Mensa1, Zulema D Garraffo2, Annalisa Griffa3, Tamay M Ozgokmen1, Angelique C Haza4 and Milena Veneziani5, (1)University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, (2)NOAA/EMC--Lynker, College Park, United States, (3)ISMAR, CNR, Lerici, Italy, (4)University of Miami, Ocean Sciences, Miami, FL, United States, (5)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Fluid Dynamics and Solid Mechanics, Division T-3 MSB216, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
OS31C-1002
Gulf Stream Slope Eddies and their Submesocale Interior (27899)
Jonathan Gula, Laboratoire d’Océanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS), University of Brest, CNRS, Ifremer, IRD, IUEM, Plouzané, France, Maarten J Molemaker, University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States and James C McWilliams, University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States
 
OS31C-1003
A Description of Local and Nonlocal Eddy-Mean Flow Interaction in a Global Eddying State Estimate (14871)
Carl I Wunsch1,2, Ru Chen3 and Glenn Flierl1, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
 
OS31C-1004
Bjerknes-like Compensation Between Eddy Components of Meridional Heat Transport in the Wintertime North Pacific (10624)
Stuart P Bishop1, Frank Bryan2 and Justin Small1, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics, Boulder, United States
 
OS31C-1006
Resonant generation and energetics of wind-forced near-inertial motions in a submesoscale jet (14241)
Daniel B Whitt, NASA, Mountain View, United States and Leif N Thomas, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
 
OS31C-1007
Mixed Layer Formation and Restratification in the Presence of Mesoscale and Submesoscale Turbulence (12070)
Xavier Couvelard1, Anne Marie Tréguier2, Franck Dumas1, Valérie Garnier1 and Aurelien Ponte3, (1)IFREMER, Dyneco/Physed, Plouzané, France, (2)IFREMER, LPO, Plouzané, France, (3)CNRS-IFREMER-IRD-UBO, LOPS, Plouzané, France
 
OS31C-1008
Surprisingly low near-inertial energy flux leaving the ocean’s mixed layer (25307)
Antonija Rimac, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Ocean, Hamburg, Germany, Jin-Song von Storch, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Climate Variability, Hamburg, Germany and Carsten Eden, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
 
OS31C-1009
Damping of Balanced Motions during Critical Reflection of Inertial Waves Off the Sea Surface at Ocean Fronts (7691)
Nicolas Grisouard, University of Toronto, Physics, Toronto, ON, Canada and Leif N Thomas, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
 
OS31C-1010
Impact of Submesoscale Eddies on Synoptic and Mesoscale Oceanic Structures in a Continental Shelf Margin Analyzed with a Downscaling Ocean Model of Japan Sea (14977)
Dai Miyazaki1, Yusuke Uchiyama1, Ryosuke Kanki1 and Yasumasa Miyazawa2, (1)Kobe University, Kobe, Japan, (2)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Seasonal Prediction Center for Shipping digital transformation (SPDX), Yokohama, Japan
 
OS31C-1011
Estimating the Numerical Diapycnal Mixing in the GO5.0 Ocean Model (8448)
Alex Megann1, A. J. George Nurser1 and Marine Systems Modelling, (1)National Oceanography Center, Soton, Southampton, United Kingdom
 
OS31C-1014
Sub-mesoscale Circulation in the Southern Ocean (14965)
Isabella Rosso1, Andrew M Hogg2, Peter G Strutton3, Andrew E Kiss1 and Richard Matear4, (1)Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia, (2)Australian National University, ACCESS-NRI, Canberra, ACT, Australia, (3)University of Tasmania, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Hobart, TAS, Australia, (4)CSIRO, Oceans & Atmosphere, Hobart, TAS, Australia
 
OS31C-1015
Response of phytoplankton to submesoscale dynamics in the western North Pacific (27961)
Yoshikazu Sasai1, Hideharu Sasaki1, Patrice Klein2 and Bo Qiu3, (1)JAMSTEC, Yokohama, Japan, (2)Cnrs/Ifremer/LOPS, Plouzané, France, (3)Univ Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, United States
 
OS31C-1016
The Importance of Submesoscale Versus Basin-scale Processes in Driving the Subpolar Spring Phytoplankton Bloom. (22067)
Sarah Brody, Duke University, Earth and Ocean Sciences, Durham, NC, United States, Amala Mahadevan, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Susan Lozier, Duke University, Durham, United States
 
OS34B-07
Using MODIS True-Color 250 m Remote Sensing Data to Assess Interannual Variability of Suspended Matter over Southeastern Brazilian Continental Shelf (4795)
Andre Luiz Belem, Tulio M.L. Silva and Ana Luiza Albuquerque, UFF Federal Fluminense University, Niteroi, Brazil
 
OS34B-08
Multi-platform Chlorophyll and Sea Surface Temperature data fusion for Potential Fishing Zone detection using MODIS/VIIRS and ancillary data (16210)
Maria Teresa Chiaradia1, Khalid Tijani1, Alberto Morea1, Raffaele Nutricato2, Luciano Guerriero2, Luigi Giannini3 and Lapo Nannucci3, (1)Polytechnic University of Bari, Bari, Italy, (2)GAP srl, Bari, Italy, (3)Federpesca (Federazione Nazionale delle Imprese di Pesca), Rome, Italy
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