OS52A:
Multiscale Variability and Predictability of Ocean Circulation and Climate I

Session ID#: 4637

Friday, 19 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
3009 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  William K Dewar, Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, United States and Dongliang Yuan, First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Qingdao, China
Primary Convener:  Dongliang Yuan, First Institute of Oceanography, Qingdao, China
Co-conveners:  William K Dewar, Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, United States, Yan DU, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, Guangzhou, China and Hui Zhou, Institute of Oceanology, CAS, Qingdao, China
OSPA Liaison:  Yan DU, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
Index Terms:

4215 Climate and interannual variability [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4520 Eddies and mesoscale processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4522 ENSO [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4576 Western boundary currents [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

OS52A-01
Why is the Equatorial Pacific Warm Water Volume (WWV) an El Nino predictor, and why has it not performed as well recently? (26992)
Allan J Clarke, Florida State University, Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Tallahassee, FL, United States and Xiaolin Zhang, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States
OS52A-02
Wind- Versus Eddy-Forced Regional Sea Level Trends and Variability in the Pacific Ocean (Invited) (4248)
Bo Qiu1,2, Shuiming Chen2, Lixin Wu3 and Shinichiro Kida4, (1)Univ Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, United States, (2)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (3)Ocean University of China, Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System and Key Laboratory of Physical Oceanography, Qingdao, China, (4)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan
OS52A-03
Mean Circulation and Water Masses and Their Variability in the Western Tropical Pacific and Eastern Tropical Indian Ocean (Invited) (23279)
Stephen Riser, University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, United States
OS52A-04
Spatial Distribution of Diapycnal Diffusion of Heat and Buoyancy in the Indian Ocean (21251)
Tonia astrid Capuano, Expertise France, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Lynne D Talley, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, United States, Julie McClean, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, Alison M Macdonald, WHOI, Woods Hole, United States and Caitlin B Whalen, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, United States
OS52A-05
Tropical-Extratropical Exchange Based on Argo Profiles and Ship-Based Observations Near the Western Boundary (3932)
Dongliang Yuan, First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Qingdao, China, Bo Li, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Munich, Germany and Lina Yang, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
OS52A-07
Observations of Interannual Equatorial Fresh Water Jets in the Western Equatorial Pacific (26465)
Xiaolin Zhang, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States and Allan J Clarke, Florida State University, Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Tallahassee, FL, United States
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