OS33E:
Ocean Submesoscale Processes and Potential Scientific Breakthrough: Simulations, Observations, and Applications I

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
Chairs:  Leif N Thomas, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States and Bo Qiu, Univ Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
Primary Conveners:  Patrice Klein, IFREMER, LPO, Plouzané, France
Co-conveners:  Bo Qiu, Univ Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, Jorge Vazquez, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Mike Chin, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Bo Qiu, Univ Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

1:40 PM
 
Multi-Eady models of surface and deep instabilities
Glenn Flierl1, Raffaele M Ferrari1, Baylor Fox-Kemper2 and Jörn Callies1, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
1:55 PM
 
Submesoscale Phenomena and Consequences around the Gulf Stream
James C McWilliams, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States
2:10 PM
 
Mode Water Formation via Cabbeling and Submesoscale Lateral Mixing at a Strained Thermohaline Front
Leif N Thomas, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States and Callum J. Shakespeare, University of Cambridge, DAMPT, Cambridge, United Kingdom
2:25 PM
 
Impact of Oceanic Scale-Interactions on the Seasonal Modulation of Ocean Dynamics By the Atmosphere
Hideharu Sasaki1, Patrice Klein2, Bo Qiu3 and Yoshikazu Sasai1, (1)JAMSTEC, Yokohama, Japan, (2)IFREMER, LPO, Plouzané, France, (3)Univ Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
2:40 PM
 
Seasonal Mesoscale and Submesoscale Eddy Variability Along the North Pacific Subtropical Countercurrent
Bo Qiu, Univ Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, Shuiming Chen, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, Patrice Klein, IFREMER, LPO, Plouzané, France, Hideharu Sasaki, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan and Yoshikazu Sasai, RIGC, Yokohama, Japan
2:55 PM
 
Parameterization of Submesoscale Particle Transport in the Gulf of Mexico
Angelique C Haza, University of Miami, Ocean Sciences, Miami, FL, United States, Tamay M Ozgokmen, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, Annalisa Griffa, ISMAR, CNR, Lerici, Italy, Andrew C Poje, College Staten Island, Staten Island, NY, United States, Patrick J Hogan, Stennis Space Ctr, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States and Gregg A. Jacobs, Naval Research Lab, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States
3:10 PM
 
Eddy-Driven Interannual Variability of the North-Atlantic Spring Bloom
Marina Levy1, Laure Resplandy2 and Matthieu Lengaigne1, (1)LOCEAN, Paris Cedex 05, France, (2)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
3:25 PM
 
Wave–Vortex Decomposition of One-Dimensional Ship Track Data
Jörn Callies1, Oliver Buhler2 and Raffaele M Ferrari1, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)New York University, New York, NY, United States
 
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