OS41F:
Ocean Mesoscale Processes I

Session ID#: 4642

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
3011 (Moscone West)
Chair:  Eitarou Oka, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Primary Convener:  Ali Belmadani, Universidad de Concepcion, Departamento de Geofisica, Concepcion, Chile
Co-conveners:  Ryo Furue, IPRC Univ of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States; JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, Hidenori Aiki, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan and Pedro Vélez-Belchí, Centro Oceanográfico de Canarias, Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
OSPA Liaison:  Ryo Furue, IPRC Univ of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • NG - Nonlinear Geophysics
Index Terms:

4262 Ocean observing systems [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4273 Physical and biogeochemical interactions [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4520 Eddies and mesoscale processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4528 Fronts and jets [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

OS41F-01
Structure and Surface Properties of Eddies in the Southeast Pacific Ocean (Invited) (2942)
James Holte1, Fiammetta Straneo2, Carlos Moffat3, Robert A Weller1 and J Thomas Farrar4, (1)WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)UC San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (3)Universidad de Concepción, Departamento de Oceanograf´ıa y Programa COPAS Sur-Austral, Concepción, Chile, (4)WHOI, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States
OS41F-02
The quiet revolution: continuous glider monitoring at ocean ‘choke’ points as a key component of new cross-platform ocean observation systems (16698)
Emma E Heslop1,2, Joaquin Tintore3,4, Simon Ruiz5, John Allen3,6 and Jose Luis López-Jurado7, (1)SOCIB, Palma, Spain, (2)IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB), Marine Technologies, operational oceanography and sustainability, Esporles, Spain, (3)Balearic Islands Coastal Observing and Forecasting System (SOCIB), Palma de Mallorca, Spain, (4)Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA), Esporles, Spain, (5)IMEDEA(CSIC-UIB), Esporles, Spain, (6)University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, United Kingdom, (7)IEO-COB, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
OS41F-03
Biogenic N2 and δ15 N-N2 As Proxies for N-Loss in the Eastern Tropical North Pacific: A Lagrangian Float Experiment. (8699)
Annie Bourbonnais1, Mark A Altabet2, Craig L McNeil3, Jennifer Larkum4, Andrew C Reed3 and Eric A D'Asaro5, (1)University of South Carolina, School of Earth, Ocean, and Environment, Columbia, United States, (2)University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, New Bedford, United States, (3)Applied Physics Lab, Univ of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (4)University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA, United States, (5)Applied Physics Lab, Univ of Washington, Seattle, United States
OS41F-04
The role of mesoscale kinetic energy in natural occurring phytoplankton blooms and export in Drake Passage. (6583)
Alexander R Davies, University of Delaware, School or Marine Science and Policy, Newark, DE, United States, Fabrice Veron, University of Delaware, School of Marine Science and Policy, Newark, DE, United States and Matthew J Oliver, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
OS41F-05
Western North Pacific Integrated Physical-Biogeochemical Ocean Observation Experiment: Summary of the Intensive Observation Around the Biogeochemical Mooring S1 (S1-INBOX) (9186)
Toshio Suga1,2, Ryuichiro Inoue3, Dr. Shinya Kouketsu4, Shigeki Hosoda5, Taiyo Kobayashi3, Kanako Sato6, Hiroyuki Nakajima7, Makio C Honda3, Tetsuichi Fujiki8, Kazuhiko Matsumoto3, Takeshi Kawano3 and Toshiro Saino3, (1)Tohoku University, Yokosuka, Japan, (2)Tohoku University, Graduate School of Science, Sendai, Japan, (3)JAMSTEC, Yokosuka, Japan, (4)JAMSTEC, WPI-AIMEC, Yokohama, Japan, (5)WPI-AIMEC, Yokohama, Japan, (6)Ministry of Environment, Tokyo, Japan, (7)Marine Works Japan, Yokosuka, Japan, (8)JAMSTEC, Research Institute for Global Change, Yokosuka, Japan
OS41F-06
Inferring upper ocean dynamics from horizontal wavenumber spectra: Insights from Drake Passage (27194)
Cesar B Rocha1, Teresa K Chereskin1, Prof. Sarah T Gille, PhD2 and Dimitris Menemenlis3, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
OS41F-07
Climatological Mean Features and Interannual to Decadal Variability of Ring Formations in the Kuroshio Extension Region (7212)
Yoshi N Sasaki and Shoshiro Minobe, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
OS41F-08
A Microscale View of Mixing and Overturning Across the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (4184)
Alberto Naveira Garabato1, Kurt L Polzin2, Raffaele M Ferrari3, Jan David Zika4 and Alexander Forryan4, (1)University of Southampton, Ocean and Earth Science, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom, (2)WHOI, Woods Hole, United States, (3)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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