OS33E:
Ocean Submesoscale Processes and Potential Scientific Breakthrough: Simulations, Observations, and Applications I

Session ID#: 4663

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
3011 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Leif N Thomas, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States and Bo Qiu, Univ Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, United States
Primary Convener:  Patrice Klein, Cnrs/Ifremer/LOPS, Plouzané, France
Co-conveners:  Bo Qiu, Univ Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, United States, Jorge Vazquez, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Mike Chin, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Bo Qiu, Univ Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • NG - Nonlinear Geophysics
Index Terms:

4490 Turbulence [NONLINEAR GEOPHYSICS]
4520 Eddies and mesoscale processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4528 Fronts and jets [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4572 Upper ocean and mixed layer processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

OS33E-01
Multi-Eady models of surface and deep instabilities (15546)
Glenn Flierl1, Raffaele M Ferrari1, Baylor Fox-Kemper2 and Jörn Callies3, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, (3)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
OS33E-02
Submesoscale Phenomena and Consequences around the Gulf Stream (Invited) (5285)
James C McWilliams, University of California, Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States
OS33E-03
Mode Water Formation via Cabbeling and Submesoscale Lateral Mixing at a Strained Thermohaline Front (20860)
Leif N Thomas, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States and Callum James Shakespeare, Australian National University, RSES, Canberra, ACT, Australia
OS33E-04
Impact of Oceanic Scale-Interactions on the Seasonal Modulation of Ocean Dynamics By the Atmosphere (Invited) (4989)
Hideharu Sasaki1, Patrice Klein2, Bo Qiu3 and Yoshikazu Sasai1, (1)JAMSTEC, Yokohama, Japan, (2)Cnrs/Ifremer/LOPS, Plouzané, France, (3)Univ Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, United States
OS33E-05
Seasonal Mesoscale and Submesoscale Eddy Variability Along the North Pacific Subtropical Countercurrent (3691)
Bo Qiu, Univ Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, United States, Shuiming Chen, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, Patrice Klein, Cnrs/Ifremer/LOPS, Plouzané, France, Hideharu Sasaki, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan and Yoshikazu Sasai, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Research Institute for Global Change (RIGC), Yokohama, Japan
OS33E-06
Parameterization of Submesoscale Particle Transport in the Gulf of Mexico (13638)
Angelique C Haza, University of Miami, Ocean Sciences, Miami, FL, United States, Tamay M Ozgokmen, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, Annalisa Griffa, ISMAR, CNR, Lerici, Italy, Andrew C Poje, The City University of New York, Department of Mathematics, College Staten Island, Staten Island, United States, Patrick J Hogan, Stennis Space Ctr, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States and Gregg A. Jacobs, Naval Research Laboratory, Ocean Sciences Division, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States
OS33E-07
Eddy-Driven Interannual Variability of the North-Atlantic Spring Bloom (26160)
Marina Levy, CNRS, LOCEAN-IPSL, Paris, France, Laure Resplandy, Princeton University, High Meadows Environmental Institute and Department of Geosciences, Princeton, United States and Len Gaign, LOCEAN, Paris Cedex 05, France
OS33E-08
Wave–Vortex Decomposition of One-Dimensional Ship Track Data (27263)
Jörn Callies, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Oliver Buhler, New York University, CAOS, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, United States and Raffaele M Ferrari, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
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