OS52B:
Ocean Salinity, Water Cycle Variability, and Science Results from Satellite Measurements I

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Session ID#: 16697

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:  Kyla Drushka, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States and Paul James Durack, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison, Livermore, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Tong Lee, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, 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:

Improving knowledge of the surface salinity annual cycle with Aquarius satellite measurements (Invited) (167566)
Gary S E Lagerloef, Earth & Space Research, Seattle, WA, United States
Spatio-temporal distribution of variance in upper ocean salinity (Invited) (119716)
Christophe Maes, UBO, CNRS, IRD, Ifremer, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Physique et Spatiale, Plouzané, France, Plouzane, France, Terence O'Kane, CSIRO Hobart, Hobart, TAS, Australia and Didier P Monselesan, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Flagship, Hobart, Australia
Quantifying the impact of mesoscale eddies on SSS changes in the tropical Pacific Ocean (122015)
Thierry C Delcroix1,2, Yawouvi Soviadan3, Alexis Chaigneau2,4 and Jacqueline Boutin5, (1)Observatory Midi-Pyrenees, LEGOS, Toulouse, France, (2)Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Toulouse, France, (3)CIPMA, Cotonou, Benin, (4)LEGOS, Toulouse, France, (5)LOCEAN, Paris Cedex 05, France
Intraseasonal to interannual Sea Surface Salinity Variations in the Tropical Pacific Ocean (189486)
Audrey Emilie Alice Hasson, LOCEAN ESA/CNRS, Paris Cedex 05, France; CNES French National Center for Space Studies, LOCEAN, Toulouse Cedex 09, France, Jacqueline Boutin, LOCEAN, Paris Cedex 05, France, Frederick Bingham, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, United States, Tong Lee, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, J. Thomas Farrar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Alexandre Supply, Sorbonne Université, LOCEAN, Paris Cedex 05, France, Martin Puy, University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States, Rosemary Morrow, CNES French National Center for Space Studies, Toulouse Cedex 09, France and Gilles P Reverdin, Sorbonne Université - CNRS/IRD/MNHN, LOCEAN, Paris, France
From the tropical freshwater to the subtropical saltwater zones: Ocean dynamical control on the relationship between the ocean water cycle and salinity (154084)
Lisan Yu, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Rainfall Predictions From Global Salinity Anomalies (177338)
Raymond W Schmitt, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Laifang Li, Duke Univ-Earth & Ocean Sci, Durham, NC, United States and Tianjia Liu, Columbia University of New York, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Palisades, NY, United States
A Texas Flood from Land to Ocean Observed by SMAP (135761)
Severine Fournier1, John T Reager II2, Tong Lee3, Jorge Vazquez3, Cedric H David4 and Michelle M Gierach5, (1)JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Mechanisms for Seasonal and Interannual Sea Surface Salinity Variability in the Indian Ocean (125855)
Julia Köhler1, Detlef Stammer2, Nuno Serra1 and Frank Bryan3, (1)University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, (2)Universität Hamburg, Centrum für Erdsystemforschung und Nachhaltigkeit, Institute of Oceanography, Hamburg, Germany, (3)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States

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