OS44B:
Ocean Salinity and Water Cycle Variability and Change IV

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Paul James Durack, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States 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:

4:00 PM
OS44B-01
 
Ocean-to-Ocean Dissimilarities of Salty Subtropical Surface Water
Arnold L Gordon, Columbia University of New York, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
4:15 PM
OS44B-02
 
A Subtropical North Atlantic Regional Atmospheric Moisture Budget
Frederick Bingham, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, United States and Joseph Matthew D'Addezio, University of South Carolina Columbia, Columbia, SC, United States
4:30 PM
OS44B-03
 
Water cycle amplification inferred from broadening of the ocean’s salinity distribution
Jan David Zika1, Nikolaos Skliris2, George Nurser3, Adam Blaker3 and Robert Marsh2, (1)University of Southampton, Ocean and Earth Science, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom, (2)University of Southampton, Ocean and Earth Science, Southampton, United Kingdom, (3)National Oceanography Center, Soton, Southampton, United Kingdom
4:45 PM
OS44B-04
 
Variability of the Tropical Atlantic and Pacific SSS Minimum Zones in the Last Three Decades and Their Relations to the ITCZ and NECC
Thierry C Delcroix1, Michel Lionel Tchilibou2, Gael Alory1, Gilles P Reverdin3 and Sabine Arnault3, (1)LEGOS, Toulouse, France, (2)CIPMA, Cotonou, Benin, (3)LOCEAN Univ Paris VI boite 100, Paris, France
5:00 PM
OS44B-05
 
Where to Look for Recent Decadal Ocean Temperature and Salinity Changes: a CMIP Model Density Analysis.
Eric Guilyardi, LOCEAN, IPSL, Paris Cedex 05, France; University of Reading, NCAS Climate, Reading, United Kingdom, Paul James Durack, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States and Peter J Gleckler, LLNL/PCMDI, San Francisco, CA, United States
5:15 PM
OS44B-06
 
The Impact of the Ozone Hole on the Salinity of the Southern Ocean
Abraham l Solomon1, Lorenzo M Polvani2, Ryan P Abernathey1 and Karen L Smith3, (1)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)Columbia University, New York, NY, United States, (3)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
5:30 PM
OS44B-07
 
Upper Ocean Salinity Stratification in the Tropics As Derived from the Buoyancy Frequency N2
Christophe Maes, Laboratoire de Physique des Océans, Brest, France and Terence O'Kane, CSIRO Hobart, Hobart, Australia
5:45 PM
OS44B-08
 
The Role of Time Scales in Estimating the Relative Importance of Isopycnal and Diapycnal Oceanic Mixing
Julian J Schanze, Earth and Space Research, Seattle, WA, United States and Raymond W Schmitt, Woods Hole Oceanographic Insti, Woods Hole, MA, United States
 
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