OS52A:
Multiscale Variability and Predictability of Ocean Circulation and Climate I

Friday, 19 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  William K Dewar, Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, FL, United States and Dongliang Yuan, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
Primary Conveners:  Dongliang Yuan, Institute of Oceanology, CAS, Qingdao, China
Co-conveners:  William K Dewar, Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, FL, United States, Yan DU, SCSIO, CAS, Guangzhou, China and Hui Zhou, Institute of Oceanology, CAS, Qingdao, China
OSPA Liaisons:  Yan DU, SCSIO South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Acaademy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
OS52A-01
 
Why is the Equatorial Pacific Warm Water Volume (WWV) an El Nino predictor, and why has it not performed as well recently?
Allan J Clarke and Xiaolin Zhang, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States
10:40 AM
OS52A-02
 
Wind- Versus Eddy-Forced Regional Sea Level Trends and Variability in the Pacific Ocean
Bo Qiu1,2, Shuiming Chen2, Lixin Wu3 and Shinichiro Kida4, (1)Univ Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (2)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (3)Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China, (4)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan
11:00 AM
OS52A-03
 
Mean Circulation and Water Masses and Their Variability in the Western Tropical Pacific and Eastern Tropical Indian Ocean
Stephen Riser, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States
11:20 AM
OS52A-04
 
Spatial Distribution of Diapycnal Diffusion of Heat and Buoyancy in the Indian Ocean
Tonia astrid Capuano1, Lynne D Talley2, Julie McClean3, Alison M Macdonald4 and Caitlin Whalen3, (1)University of Western Brittany, Brest, France, (2)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, (3)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (4)WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States
11:35 AM
OS52A-05
 
Tropical-Extratropical Exchange Based on Argo Profiles and Ship-Based Observations Near the Western Boundary
Dongliang Yuan, Bo Li and Lina Yang, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
11:50 AM
OS52A-06
 
Antarctic Bottom Water Temperature Changes in the Western South Atlantic from 1989–2014
Gregory C Johnson1, Kristy E. McTaggart1 and Richard H Wanninkhof2, (1)Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Miami, FL, United States
12:05 PM
OS52A-07
 
Observations of Interannual Equatorial Fresh Water Jets in the Western Equatorial Pacific
Xiaolin Zhang and Allan J Clarke, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States
 
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