OS51D:
From QuikSCAT to RapidSCAT: Recent Accomplishments in Air-Sea Interaction and Climate Variability I

Session ID#: 4630

Friday, 19 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
3009 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Mark A Bourassa, Florida State University, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Tallahassee, FL, United States, Tong Lee, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Frank J Wentz, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA, United States
Primary Convener:  Mark A Bourassa, Florida State University, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Tallahassee, FL, United States
Co-conveners:  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
OSPA Liaison:  Mark A Bourassa, Florida State University, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Tallahassee, FL, 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:

OS51D-01
Multidecadal Consistent Ocean Vector Winds: from QuikSCAT to RapidScat and Beyond (Invited) (14939)
Ernesto Rodriguez, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Svetla M Hristova-Veleva, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
OS51D-02
Building a Climate Data Record for Ocean Vector Winds (Invited) (5574)
Lucrezia Ricciardulli, Thomas Meissner and Frank J Wentz, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA, United States
OS51D-03
Changes in Ocean Wind Retrieval Performance During the WindSat Mission (16704)
Michael H Bettenhausen, Naval Research Lab DC, Remote Sensing Division, Washington, DC, United States, Peter Gaiser, US Naval Research Lab DC, Washington, DC, United States, Ian S Adams, Naval Research Lab DC, Remote Sensing Division, Washington, United States and David Truesdale, Naval Research Lab DC, Remote Sensing, Washington, DC, United States
OS51D-04
Sea Ice Monitoring Using Quikscat & Ascat Scatterometers during the Last 15-Year Period (10144)
Fanny Girard-Ardhuin, IFREMER, Plouzané, France
OS51D-05
Exploring the Relationship between Surface Wind Convergence and Convective Rainfall in the Tropics. (31463)
Thomas Kilpatrick, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Sterling, VA, United States, Shang-Ping Xie, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States and Tomoe Nasuno, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
OS51D-06
Spatio-Temporal Variability in Coastal Upwelling/Downwelling from Scatterometer Winds (17672)
Steven L Morey, Florida State University, Center for Ocean - Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Tallahassee, FL, United States
OS51D-07
The Effects of Eddy-Induced Ekman Pumping on Mesoscale and Large-Scale Ocean Circulation (Invited) (11546)
Dudley B Chelton Jr1, Ricardo P Matano1, Vincent Combes2 and Michael Schlax1, (1)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB), Esporles, Spain
OS51D-08
A Regional Air-Sea Coupled Mode in the Coastal Ocean Off California and Baja California (7683)
Chaoxia Yuan, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan and Toshio Yamagata, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Japan
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