OS31B:
Integrated Observations and Modeling of Surface Currents, Waves, and Winds I
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Session ID#: 57527
Session Description:
Ocean surface winds, waves, and currents play important roles in vertical fluxes of momentum, energy, and tracers. These variables, and their gradients are strongly coupled with the atmospheric and oceanic boundary-layers (BL). This section focuses on the utilization of observations and modeling of surface winds, waves, and currents to improve our understanding of BL processes, including coupling with the free atmosphere and through the ocean’s thermocline. From an observational point of view, community efforts to observe these surface variables have led to proposals for satellite Doppler oceanography (e.g the Sea surface KInematics Multiscale monitoring satellite mission, SKIM and the Winds and Currents Mission), which, if funded, could provide for the first time measurements of Stokes drift and absolute surface velocity at global scales. Air-sea coupling, in a manner that includes the relatively vigorous coupling on scales <70 km, is expected to be critical for improving longer-term atmospheric forecasts.
Primary Convener: Bia Villas Boas, Colorado School of Mines, Geophysics, Golden, United States
Convener: Bourassa Mark A, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States
Primary Liaison: Bia Villas Boas, Colorado School of Mines, Geophysics, Golden, United States
Chairs: Bia Villas Boas, Colorado School of Mines, Geophysics, Golden, United States, Nicholas Pizzo, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, Alex Ayet, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States and Fabrice Ardhuin, University of Bretagne Occidentale, CNRS, IFREMER, IRD, Plouzané, France
OSPA Liaison: Bia Villas Boas, Colorado School of Mines, Geophysics, Golden, United States
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Allison Ho1, Sophia Merrifield2, Eric Terrill3, Bia Villas Boas4, Luc Lenain3 and Wallace Kendall Melville5, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States, (3)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (4)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (5)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Steven L Morey, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, NOAA Center for Coastal and Marine Ecosystems, Tallahassee, United States, Nico Wienders, Florida State University, Tallahassee, United States, Dmitry S Dukhovskoy, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States and Mark A Bourassa, Florida State Univ, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Tallahassee, United States
Nicholas Pizzo, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, Luc Deike, Princeton University, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton, United States and Wallace Kendall Melville, Univ California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
Alex Ayet1,2, Bertrand Chapron1, Jean-Luc Redelsperger1, Guillaume Lapeyre3 and Louis Marie4, (1)IFREMER, Univ. Brest, CNRS, IRD, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Physique et Spatiale, Brest, France, (2)Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France, Paris, France, (3)Ecole Normale Supérieure, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Paris, France, (4)IFREMER, Univ. Brest, CNRS, IRD, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Physique et Spatiale UMR 6523, Brest, France
Luc Deike, Princeton University, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton, United States, Wallace Kendall Melville, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States and Brandon G Reichl, Princeton University/NOAA GFDL, Princeton, United States
Qing Li, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Brandon G Reichl, NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, Baylor Fox-Kemper, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, Alistair Adcroft, Program for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, United States, Stephen E Belcher, Univ Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, Gokhan Danabasoglu, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics, Boulder, United States, Alan L Grant, University of Reading, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom, Stephen Matthew Griffies, LOCEAN Laboratory, Sorbonne Université/CNRS/IRD/MNHN, Paris, France, Robert Hallberg, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, Tetsu Hara, University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI, United States, Ramsey R Harcourt, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, United States, William Large, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, James C McWilliams, University of California, Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, Brodie Pearson, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, United States, Peter P Sullivan, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, Luke P Van Roekel, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, Peng Wang, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States and Zhihua Zheng, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, College Park, United States
Shuyi S Chen, University of Washington, Atmospheric and Climate Science, Seattle, United States and Milan Curcic, University of Miami, Ocean Sciences, Miami, United States
