OS43G:
Ocean Salinity and Water Cycle Variability and Change III

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
Chairs:  Jacqueline Boutin, LOCEAN, Paris Cedex 05, France and Eric J Lindstrom, Nasa Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Conveners:  Paul James Durack, Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab., Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison, Livermore, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  J. Thomas Farrar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Department of Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Jacqueline Boutin, LOCEAN CNRS, LOCEAN laboratory, Paris, France and Eric J Lindstrom, Nasa Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  J. Thomas Farrar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Department of Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

1:40 PM
OS43G-01
 
Aquarius Satellite Salinity Measurement Mission Status, and Science Results from the initial 3-Year Prime Mission
Gary S E Lagerloef, Earth & Space Research, Seattle, WA, United States and Hsun-Ying Kao, Earth and Space Research, Seattle, WA, United States
2:10 PM
OS43G-02
 
Overview of SMOS Salinity
Reul Nicolas, IFREMER, Plouzané, France
2:25 PM
OS43G-03
 
Three Years of Aquarius Salinity Measurements: Algorithm, Validation and Applications
Thomas Meissner1, Frank J Wentz1, David M Le Vine2 and Gary S E Lagerloef3, (1)Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Earth & Space Research, Seattle, WA, United States
2:40 PM
OS43G-04
 
Aquarius Sea Surface Salinity in the South Indian Ocean: Revealing Annual-Period Planetary Waves
Viviane V Menezes1, Marcio Luiz Vianna2 and Helen Elizabeth Phillips1, (1)University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia, (2)VM Oceanica Ltda, S. Jose Dos Campos, SP, Brazil
2:55 PM
OS43G-05
 
Is the Tropical Zonal Bias in Aquarius-Argo Salinity Comparisons Due to the Difference in Measurement Depth?
Robert Drucker and Stephen Riser, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States
3:10 PM
OS43G-06
 
Mixed Layer Variability and Subduction in the SPURS Area
Jessica E Anderson and Stephen Riser, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States
3:25 PM
OS43G-07
 
Isohaline Salinity Budget of the North Atlantic Salinity Maximum
Frank Bryan, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Scott Bachman, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
 
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