OS43G:
Ocean Salinity and Water Cycle Variability and Change III

Session ID#: 4646

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
3009 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Jacqueline Boutin, LOCEAN, Paris Cedex 05, France and Eric J Lindstrom, Nasa Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Convener:  Paul James Durack, Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab., Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison, Livermore, United States
Co-conveners:  J Thomas Farrar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, United States, Jacqueline Boutin, CNRS, LOCEAN/Sorbonne Université, Paris, France and Eric J Lindstrom, Nasa Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaison:  J Thomas Farrar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, United States
Index Terms:

4504 Air/sea interactions [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4513 Decadal ocean variability [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4572 Upper ocean and mixed layer processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4594 Instruments and techniques [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

OS43G-01
Aquarius Satellite Salinity Measurement Mission Status, and Science Results from the initial 3-Year Prime Mission (19532)
Gary S E Lagerloef, Earth & Space Research, Seattle, WA, United States, Hsun-Ying Kao, Earth and Space Research, Seattle, WA, United States and Aquarius Calibration Validation Working Group
OS43G-02
Overview of SMOS Salinity (28772)
Reul Nicolas, IFREMER, Plouzané, France and SMOS ESL, CATDS, CP34 and SMOS MODE teams
OS43G-03
Three Years of Aquarius Salinity Measurements: Algorithm, Validation and Applications (9792)
Thomas Meissner1, Frank J Wentz1, David M Le Vine2 and Gary S E Lagerloef3, (1)Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Earth & Space Research, Seattle, WA, United States
OS43G-04
Aquarius Sea Surface Salinity in the South Indian Ocean: Revealing Annual-Period Planetary Waves (7685)
Dr. Viviane V Menezes, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, United States, Marcio Luiz Vianna, VM Oceanica Ltda, S. Jose Dos Campos, SP, Brazil and Helen Elizabeth Phillips, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
OS43G-05
Is the Tropical Zonal Bias in Aquarius-Argo Salinity Comparisons Due to the Difference in Measurement Depth? (10805)
Robert Drucker, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States and Stephen Riser, University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, United States
OS43G-06
Mixed Layer Variability and Subduction in the SPURS Area (27885)
Jessica E Anderson, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States and Stephen Riser, University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, United States
OS43G-07
Isohaline Salinity Budget of the North Atlantic Salinity Maximum (23467)
Frank Bryan, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics, Boulder, United States and Scott Bachman, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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