OS34B:
Ocean Submesoscale Processes and Potential Scientific Breakthrough: Simulations, Observations and Applications IV

Session ID#: 4664

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
3011 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Jorge Vazquez, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Mike Chin, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 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
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:

Observing Sea Surface Height By a Wide-Swath Altimeter and Its Challenges (Invited) (4707)
Lee-Lueng Fu1, Clement Ubelmann1 and Rosemary Morrow2, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (2)LEGOS, Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, France
Submesoscale Dispersion in the Vicinity of the Deepwater Horizon Spill (Invited) (4958)
Tamay M Ozgokmen, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States
The Submesoscale from VIIRS Imagery-Band (375 m) Sea Surface Temperature Fields (Invited) (4205)
Peter C Cornillon, University of Rhode Island, Physical Oceanography, Narragansett, United States, Gang Pan, SCSIO South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Acaademy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China and Fabian Schloesser, IPRC, Hawaii & GSO, Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, United States
Small Eddies in Lake Superior and Their Relation to the Seasonal Thermal Front (Invited) (5594)
Benjamin Holt1, Michelle M Gierach2, Katsumi Matsumoto3 and Paul J. McKinney3, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Exploring New Challenges of High-Resolution SWOT Satellite Altimetry with a Regional Model of the Solomon Sea (9391)
Jacques A Verron1, Pierre Brasseur1, Bugshin Djath1,2, Marina Duran1, Lucile Gaultier3, Lionel Gourdeau4, Angelique Melet2, Jean Marc Molines5 and Clement Ubelmann6, (1)CNRS/LGGE, Grenoble, France, (2)LEGOS, Toulouse, France, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)LEGOS/IRD, Toulouse, France, (5)CNRS - IGE, MEOM, Grenoble, France, (6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
The seasonal evolution of submesoscale turbulence statistics from an O(1 km)-resolving mooring array (3558)
Christian E. Buckingham1, Liam Brannigan2, Alberto Naveira Garabato3, Andrew F Thompson4, Ayah Lazar5, A. J. George Nurser6 and David Philip Marshall2, (1)Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Département de Physique, Brest, France, (2)University of Oxford, Physics, Oxford, United Kingdom, (3)University of Southampton, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom, (4)CALTECH California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (5)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)National Oceanography Center, Soton, Southampton, United Kingdom
Year-long observations of open-ocean submesoscale motions from ocean gliders (26296)
Andrew F Thompson, CALTECH California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Ayah Lazar, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Gillian Damerell, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom, Karen J. Heywood, University of East Anglia, Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, School of Environmental Sciences, Norwich, United Kingdom, Christian E. Buckingham, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Département de Physique, Brest, France, Alberto Naveira Garabato, University of Southampton, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom and Liam Brannigan, University of Oxford, Physics, Oxford, United Kingdom
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