OS53A:
From QuikSCAT to RapidSCAT: Recent Accomplishments in Air-Sea Interaction and Climate Variability II Posters
Friday, 19 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Primary Convener: Mark A Bourassa, Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, FL, United States
Co-conveners: Tong Lee, JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States and Frank J Wentz, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA, United States
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Rain-Induced Sea Surface Winds: What Can We Learn from Satellite Scatterometer Data?
Gregory P King1, Wenming Lin1, Marcos Portabella1, Patrick Bunn2, Ad Stoffelen2, Anton Verhoef2 and Jur Vogelzang2, (1)Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain, (2)Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, Netherlands
Stochastic Ocean Eddy Perturbations in a Coupled General Circulation Model.
Nicola Howe1, Paul David Williams2, Jonathan M Gregory3 and Robin S Smith1, (1)University of Reading, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom, (2)University of Reading, Meteorology, Reading, United Kingdom, (3)University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
Influence of Mesoscale Ocean Wind Variability on Tropical Atmospheric Convection
Stella Choi, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, Stephen W Nesbitt, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States, Timothy J Lang, NASA Marshall Space Flght Ctr, Huntsville, AL, United States and Themis Chronis, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
Impact of East Asian Winter and Australian Summer Monsoons on the Enhanced Surface Westerlies over the Western Tropical Pacific Ocean Preceding the El Niño Onset
Yangxing Zheng, Florida St Univ-COAPS, Tallahassee, FL, United States, Renhe Zhang, CAMS Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China and Mark A Bourassa, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States
Two-Look Polarimetric (2LP) Microwave Radiometers for Ocean Vector Wind Retrieval
Frank J Wentz1, Kyle A Hilburn1, Thomas Meissner1 and Shannon E Brown2, (1)Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Improving Ku-band Scatterometer Ocean Surface Wind Direction Retrievals in Tropical Cyclones
Ralph C Foster, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, Jun Zhang, Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies Miami, Miami, FL, United States and Peter G Black, NRL, Monterey, CA, United States
Sea-Change in Ocean Observations on Moored Buoys from the National Data Buoy Center (NDBC)
Richard H Bouchard1, James Elliott2, Daniel Pounder2 and Kevin Kern1, (1)National Data Buoy Center, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (2)Pacific Architects and Engineers (PAE), Stennis Space Center, MS, United States
Wind, mixed-layer depth and Chl-a variability in the Southern Ocean
Sarah T Gille, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, United States, Magdalena M Carranza, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Peter J. S. Franks, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, James B Girton, Univ Washington, Seattle, WA, United States and Kenneth S Johnson, MBARI, Moss Landing, CA, United States
Near-Inertial Surface Currents and their influence on Surface Dispersion in the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico near the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Matt Gough, RSMAS, Miami, FL, United States, Ad Reniers, Delft University of Technology, Hydrolic Engineering, Delft, Netherlands, James H MacMahan, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, United States and Stephan Dixon Howden, University of Southern Mississippi, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States
The interannual variability of the Brazil Current and links to the large-scale circulation in the South Atlantic
Marlos P Goes, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, Gustavo Jorge Goni, Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Miami, FL, United States, Mauricio M Mata, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Instituto de Oceanografia, Rio Grande, Brazil and Molly O'Neil Baringer, NOAA, Maimi, FL, United States
