OS42A:
Ocean Mesoscale Processes II

Session ID#: 4643

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
3011 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Joao Marcos Souza, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Oceanography, Honolulu, HI, United States and Ryo Furue, IPRC Univ of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States
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:

OS42A-01
Rossby Rip Currents  (Invited) (2985)
David Philip Marshall, University of Oxford, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, Oxford, United Kingdom, Bendix Vogel, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany and Xiaoming Zhai, University of East Anglia, School of Environmental Sciences, Norwich, NR4, United Kingdom
OS42A-02
Eddy-Mediated Transport of Circumpolar Deep Water Across the Antarctic Shelf Break (13898)
Andrew Stewart, University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Andrew F Thompson, CALTECH California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
OS42A-03
On the role of mesoscale eddies in ventilation of the Southern Ocean (29450)
Igor V Kamenkovich, RSMAES, University of Miami, Miami, United States, Romain Laurent Pennel, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, LEMAR, Plouzane, France, Zulema D Garraffo, NOAA/EMC--Lynker, College Park, United States and Rana A Fine, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States
OS42A-04
Water Mass Transformation by Near-Surface Mesoscale Eddy Stirring (22505)
Ryan P Abernathey, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, United States
OS42A-05
Potential utility of three-dimensional temperature and salinity fields estimated from satellite altimetry and Argo data for improving mesoscale reproducibility in regional ocean modeling (11742)
Ryosuke Kanki1, Yusuke Uchiyama1, Dai Miyazaki1, Akiko Takano2, Yasumasa Miyazawa3 and Hidekatsu Yamazaki4, (1)Kobe University, Kobe, Japan, (2)University of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan, (3)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Seasonal Prediction Center for Shipping digital transformation (SPDX), Yokohama, Japan, (4)Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan
OS42A-06
Various Regimes of Instability and Formation of Coastal Eddies Along the Shelf Bathymetry (15875)
Laura Cimoli, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Guillaume Roullet, University of Western Brittany, Brest, France and Alexandre Stegner, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique Palaiseau, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau Cedex, France
OS42A-07
Tracer Stirring Around a Meddy : The Formation of  Layering (9181)
Thomas Meunier1, Claire Menesguen2, Richard Schopp3 and Sylvie Le Gentil3, (1)WHOI, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)Laboratoire d'Océanographie Physique et Spatiales, LOPS – UMR 6523 Ifremer-CNRS-IRD-UBO, Brest, France, (3)Laboratoire de Physique des Océans, Brest, France
OS42A-08
The Energetics of Centrifugal Instability (13679)
William K Dewar, Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, United States and Yang Jiao, National Marine Enviornmental Forecasting Center, Beijing, China; Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, FL, United States
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