OS32B:
Integrated Observations and Modeling of Surface Currents, Waves, and Winds II


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Session ID#: 57533

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, Fabrice Ardhuin, University of Bretagne Occidentale, CNRS, IFREMER, IRD, Plouzané, France, Nicholas Pizzo, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States and Alex Ayet, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Bia Villas Boas, Colorado School of Mines, Geophysics, Golden, United States
Index Terms:

3307 Boundary layer processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
4504 Air/sea interactions [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4560 Surface waves and tides [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4572 Upper ocean and mixed layer processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Towards global observational constraints on oceanic surface response to wind forcing (432765)
Shane Elipot, University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, Miami, FL, United States and Jonathan M Lilly, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, United States
Directional Spectral Properties of Wind-Generated Surface Waves across the Equilibrium-Saturation Ranges (454998)
Wallace Kendall Melville, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States and Luc Lenain, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States
First results on wave spectral properties from the CFOSAT satellite (368431)
Danièle Hauser1, Aouf Lotfi2, Alice Dalphinet3, Mamadou Camara1, Lauriane Delaye4, Christophe Dufour5, Flavien Gouillon6, Antoine Grouazel7, Laura Hermozo6, Alexis Mouche8, Annabelle Ollivier9, Patricia Schippers1, Céline Tison6, Cédric Tourain6 and Raquel Rodriguez10, (1)CNRS & University Paris-Saclay, LATMOS, Guyancourt, France, (2)Meteo-France, Toulouse, France, (3)Météo-France, DIROP/MAR/R&D, Toulouse, France, (4)ACRI-ST, Sophia-Antipolis Cedex, France, (5)LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris Cedex 05, France, (6)CNES, Toulouse, France, (7)Ifremer, LOPS, Plouzané, France, (8)IFREMER, Univ. Brest, CNRS, IRD, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Physique et Spatiale, Plouzané, France, (9)CLS Collecte Localisation Satellites, Toulouse, France, (10)Centre National d'Études Spatiales, Toulouse Cedex 9, France
Feasibility of estimating large-scale sea surface height from surface current velocity streamfunction fields (456283)
Larry W O'Neill1, Ernesto Rodriguez2 and Dudley B Chelton Jr1, (1)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Measuring ocean currents beyond altimetry & drifters: The Sea surface KInematics Multiscale (SKIM) mission, an ESA mission (382950)
Fabrice Ardhuin, CNRS, Laboratoire d'Oceanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS), UMR6523 CNRS/IFREMER/IRD/UBO, Paris Cedex 16, France and The SKIM Team
Observations of Submesoscale Surface Currents and Winds with a Doppler Scatterometer (366222)
Ernesto Rodriguez, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Alexander Grant Wineteer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
The Resolution Capabilities of Surface Current Vorticity and Divergence Estimates from a Future Doppler Scatterometer Satellite Mission (Invited) (344559)
Dudley B Chelton Jr, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, Roger M Samelson, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, United States and J. Thomas Farrar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, United States

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