OS53B:
Ocean Salinity, Water Cycle Variability, and Science Results from Satellite Measurements II (Half Session)

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Session ID#: 15094

Session Description:
This session highlights research investigating ocean salinity, an Essential Climate Variable (ECV), as a key parameter that links various elements of the water cycle to ocean circulation dynamics and climate.
Contribution s are invited on all aspects of ocean salinity investigations including analyses undertaken from in situ and satellite observations, numerical models, and data assimilation. We particularly welcome contributions that have utilised sea surface salinity (SSS) measurements from the recent pathfinder satellite missions (SMOS, Aquarius/SAC­D, and SMAP). The session will focus on: recent progress from salinity remote sensing; new process­based insights from observations collected during the SPURS field campaign; salinity­driven thermohaline circulation, upper­ocean stratification, and related ocean dynamics; links between salinity and global and regional climate variability, the water cycle as well as the fingerprint of long­term change; salinity assimilation into ocean models; and the scientific imperative for future salinity measurement continuity and enhancement.
Primary Convener:  Paul James Durack, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison, Livermore, CA, United States
Conveners:  Tong Lee, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Kyla Drushka, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States and Nicolas Reul, IFREMER, Plouzané, France
Chairs:  Nicolas Reul, IFREMER, Plouzané, France and Tong Lee, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Paul James Durack, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison, Livermore, CA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • C - Cryosphere
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1655 Water cycles [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4215 Climate and interannual variability [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4255 Numerical modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Decadal Surface and Subsurface Salinity Changes in the Oceanic Subtropical Gyres (119532)
Subrahmanyam Bulusu and Bryce A Melzer, University of South Carolina Columbia, Columbia, SC, United States
Contemporary changes and links between salinity and the global ocean water cycle (128920)
Nadya Vinogradova Shiffer, Cambridge Climate Institute, Boston, MA, United States and Rui M Ponte, Verisk Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Lexington, United States
Seasonality in sea surface salinity and relating sea surface variables (139907)
Masami Nonaka, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Kanagawa, Japan, Shigeki Hosoda, WPI-AIMEC, Yokohama, Japan and Niklas Schneider, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, International Pacific Research Center, Honolulu, United States
Rain Rate from IMERG as a Predictor for Salinity Stratification in the Upper Meter of the Ocean during SPURS-2 Rain Events (197519)
Elizabeth Jennifer Thompson1, William Asher1, Kyla Drushka1, Julian J Schanze2, Andy T Jessup1 and Dan Clark1, (1)Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)Earth and Space Research, Seattle, WA, United States

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