OS23E:
Mesoscale Coherent Structures: Sources, Physics, and Impacts I

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Session ID#: 15067

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:

Small Scale Ocean Dynamics in the Cape Basin, South of Africa: Impact on Ocean Circulation and Interocean Exchanges. (177658)
Tonia astrid Capuano, Expertise France, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sabrina Speich, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Professor, Paris, France and Xavier J Carton, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Physique et Spatiale, Plouzané, France
Effects of Cross-axis Wind Jet Events on the Northern Red Sea Circulation (184926)
Viviane V Menezes1, Amy S Bower2 and J. Thomas Farrar2, (1)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, United States, (2)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Improved Climate Simulations through a Stochastic Parameterization of Ocean Eddies (122058)
Paul Williams1, Nicola J Howe2, Jonathan M Gregory3, Robin S Smith1 and Manoj Mukund Joshi4, (1)University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, (2)Risk Management Solutions, London, United Kingdom, (3)University of Reading, Meteorology, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom, (4)University of East Anglia, School of Environmental Sciences, Norwich, United Kingdom
The Prospects for Future Satellite Mapping of Mesoscale and Submesoscale Vorticity (Invited) (125522)
Dudley B Chelton Jr, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
Observed 3D Structure, Generation, and Dissipation of Mesoscale Eddies in the South China Sea (Invited) (123364)
Jiwei Tian1, Zhiwei Zhang2, Bo Qiu3 and Wei Zhao2, (1)Ocean University of China, Department of Oceanography, Qingdao, China, (2)Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China, (3)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Oceanography, Honolulu, HI, United States
Competing frictional and diabatic potential vorticity fluxes at ocean fronts (152122)
Jacob O Wenegrat and Leif N Thomas, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Eddy strain induced modifications to near-inertial waves and their implications for the energetics of the waves and eddies. (199490)
Leif N Thomas, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Eddy Vertical Structure Observed by Deepgliders: Evidence for the Enstrophy Inertial Range Cascade in Geostrophic Turbulence (140209)
Charles C Eriksen, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States

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