OS31C:
Mesoscale Coherent Structures: Sources, Physics, and Impacts II Posters

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Session ID#: 12928

Session Description:
Mesoscale structures, including eddies, fronts and jets, are found throughout the globe’s oceans. They are known to play a significant role in both regional and global ocean circulation. The transport and mixing associated with these structures have a significant impact on the global climate system. However, due to their small size and intermittent nature it is difficult to gather adequate observations in space and time. Consequently, our understanding of these structures is still limited, and their representation in basin to global scale models is poor.

Primary Convener:  Angel Miguel Amores Maimo, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
Conveners:  Christopher Roach, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, Helen Elizabeth Phillips, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia and J. Thomas Farrar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Chairs:  Angel Miguel Amores Maimo, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States and Christopher Roach, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Christopher Roach, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
Index Terms:

4520 Eddies and mesoscale processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4528 Fronts and jets [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4568 Turbulence, diffusion, and mixing processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4572 Upper ocean and mixed layer processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Subthermocline eddies observed by Argo floats in the subtropical northwestern Pacific Ocean (123454)
Zhiwei Zhang, Ocean University of China, Physical Oceanography Lab, Qingdao, China
The Dynamics of Eddy Fluxes and Jet-Scale Overturning Circulations and its Impact on the Mixed Layer Formation in the Indo-Western Pacific Southern Ocean (125336)
Qian Li, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, United States and Sukyoung Lee, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States
On the cyclonic eddy generation in Panay Strait, Philippines (132626)
Charina Lyn A Repollo, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, United States, Xavier Flores-vidal, Autonomous University of Baja California, Instituto de Investigaciones Oceanológicas, Mexicali, Mexico, Pierre J Flament, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States and Cesar Villanoy, Marine Science Institute, University of the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines
Interannual Variability of Mesoscale Eddy Activity in the South Pacific Subtropical Countercurrent (136819)
Seth Travis, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States and Bo Qiu, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Oceanography, Honolulu, HI, United States
Anisotropy of Eddies in Turbulent Baroclinic Flow (141394)
Kial Douglas Stewart, Australian National University, Research School of Earth Science, Canberra, ACT, Australia, Ross W Griffiths, Australian National University, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, Australia and Andrew M Hogg, Australian National University, ACCESS-NRI, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Propagation Velocities of Mesoscale Features from Along-Track Sea Level Anomalies (142797)
Christopher J Roach and Nikolai A Maximenko, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
Barotropic Turbulence on a Beta-Plane with Quadratic Bottom Drag (159284)
Hailu Kong, The University of Chicago, Department of the Geophysical Sciences, Chicago, IL, United States and Malte Jansen, University of Chicago, Geophysical Sciences, Chicago, IL, United States
Estimates of Oceanic Eddy Heat and Salt Transports from Satellite Altimetry and Argo Profile Data. (161875)
Angel Miguel Amores Maimo1, Oleg Melnichenko2 and Nikolai A Maximenko1, (1)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (2)University of Hawaii at Manoa, IPRC, Honolulu, United States
In-situ Observations of Eddy Generation from a Meandering Jet in the Kuroshio Extension (167030)
Leah Johnson, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, Craig Lee, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, United States and Eric A D'Asaro, University of Washington, Applied Physics Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States
Eddy Shedding in the Deep Western Boundary Current (169266)
Aviv Solodoch1, James C McWilliams2 and Andrew Stewart2, (1)Hebrew university of Jerusalem, Institute of Earth Sciences, Jerusalem, Israel, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States
Mesoscale eddy dynamics over continental slopes: a model inter-comparison (180289)
Yan Wang, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Andrew Stewart, University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States
Ocean Frontal Regions: A Global Survey (180609)
Yackar Mauzole, University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI, United States and Peter C Cornillon, University of Rhode Island, Physical Oceanography, Narragansett, United States
Chaotic Advection in the Alboran Sea: Lagrangian Analysis of Transport Processes in and out of the Western Alboran  Gyre (185198)
Dr. Genevieve Jay Brett, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, EAPS, Cambridge, United States; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Irina Rypina, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Lawrence J Pratt, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, United States
Eddy energetics in a model overturning circulation with wind and buoyancy forcing (188225)
Brian L White, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Marine Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States and Varvara Zemskova, University of Toronto, Physics, Toronto, ON, Canada
On the transport of physical and biogeochemical tracers into the North Pacific and North Atlantic subtropical gyre (188937)
Ayako Yamamoto1, Jaime B Palter1, Carolina Olivia Dufour2, Stephen Matthew Griffies3, Ivy Frenger4, John P Dunne5, Eric D Galbraith6, Daniele Bianchi7 and Mariona Claret6, (1)McGill University, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada, (2)Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (4)Princeton University, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, (5)NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, (6)McGill University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada, (7)University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Eddy-Memory mode of decadal ocean variability (189500)
Georgy E Manucharyan, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Andrew F Thompson, CALTECH California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and Michael A Spall, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, United States
Mesoscale to submesoscale structures observed in very high-resolution numerical simulations and seismic oceanography data offshore of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina (191217)
Tanya M Blacic, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, United States and Jonathan Gula, Laboratoire d’Océanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS), University of Brest, CNRS, Ifremer, IRD, IUEM, Plouzané, France
Mesoscale and submesoscale variability in Drake Passage, Southern Ocean: observations from ocean gliders (197340)
Andrew F Thompson1, Mar Flexas2, Janet Sprintall3, Giuliana Viglione2, Xiaozhou Ruan2 and Zachary K Erickson4, (1)CALTECH California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (2)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, (4)NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Physical Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States
Structure and Variability of the North Equatorial Undercurrent from Mooring Measurements at 130°E in the Western Pacific (199315)
Linlin Zhang, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China and Dunxin Hu, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Ocean Circulation and Waves, Qingdao, China
Observation of Vertical Shear Increase on Eddies Mounting the Shelf (117372)
Jose Ochoa, Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada, Ensenada, BJ, Mexico, Lenna Ortiz, CICESE, Ensenada, Mexico, Julio Sheinbaum, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Oceanografía Física, San Diego, CA, United States and Julio Candela, CICESE, Physical Oceanography, Ensenada, BJ, Mexico

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