OS44B:
Ocean Salinity and Water Cycle Variability and Change IV

Session ID#: 4647

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
3009 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Paul James Durack, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison, Livermore, CA, United States 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:

OS44B-01
Ocean-to-Ocean Dissimilarities of Salty Subtropical Surface Water (Invited) (10557)
Prof. Arnold L Gordon, PhD, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
OS44B-02
A Subtropical North Atlantic Regional Atmospheric Moisture Budget (13630)
Frederick Bingham, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, United States and Joseph Matthew D'Addezio, Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, United States
OS44B-03
Water cycle amplification inferred from broadening of the ocean’s salinity distribution (Invited) (2899)
Jan David Zika1, Nikolaos Skliris1, A. J. George Nurser2, Adam Blaker3 and Robert Marsh1, (1)University of Southampton, Ocean and Earth Science, Southampton, United Kingdom, (2)National Oceanography Center, Soton, Southampton, United Kingdom, (3)National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom
OS44B-04
Variability of the Tropical Atlantic and Pacific SSS Minimum Zones in the Last Three Decades and Their Relations to the ITCZ and NECC (15695)
Thierry C Delcroix1, Michel Lionel Tchilibou2, Gael Alory1, Gilles P Reverdin3 and Sabine Arnault4, (1)LEGOS, Toulouse, France, (2)CIPMA, Cotonou, Benin, (3)Sorbonne Université - CNRS/IRD/MNHN, LOCEAN, Paris, France, (4)IRD, LOCEAN, Paris, France
OS44B-05
Where to Look for Recent Decadal Ocean Temperature and Salinity Changes: a CMIP Model Density Analysis. (12085)
Eric Guilyardi, LOCEAN-IPSL, CNRS/IRD/MNHN/Sorbonne Université, Paris, France; University of Reading, NCAS Climate, Reading, United Kingdom, Paul James Durack, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison, Livermore, CA, United States and Peter J Gleckler, LLNL/PCMDI, San Francisco, United States
OS44B-06
The Impact of the Ozone Hole on the Salinity of the Southern Ocean (23016)
Abraham L Solomon, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, Prof. Lorenzo M Polvani, PhD, Columbia University, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, New York, United States, Ryan P Abernathey, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, United States and Karen L Smith, University of Toronto, Physical and Environmental Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada
OS44B-07
Upper Ocean Salinity Stratification in the Tropics As Derived from the Buoyancy Frequency N2 (3909)
Christophe Maes, Laboratoire de Physique des Océans, Brest, France and Terence O'Kane, CSIRO Hobart, Hobart, TAS, Australia
OS44B-08
The Role of Time Scales in Estimating the Relative Importance of Isopycnal and Diapycnal Oceanic Mixing (32069)
Julian J Schanze, Earth and Space Research, Seattle, WA, United States and Raymond W Schmitt, Woods Hole Oceanographic Insti, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States
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