OS51B:
Temporal Variability in Oceanic Mesoscale Activity, from Seasonal to Multidecadal Records I


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Session ID#: 57614

Session Description:
Mesoscale oceanic variability (~10-200 km) is known to play a major role in the transport of heat, salt, and nutrients in the global ocean, affecting not only ocean physics but also marine ecosystems.  More than two decades of remote-sensing observations, networks of in-situ data such as the Argo program, and the development of high-resolution ocean general circulation models enable studies of such variability in space and time.

This session welcomes presentations that use these state-of-the-art analysis tools to enhance our understanding of temporal variability at the oceanic mesoscale.  Analyses that focus on seasonal, interannual/decadal, and long-term changes in mesoscale activity are invited, as are efforts that assess our capability to accurately quantify mesoscale activity and its variability.  Studies that consider the implications for tracer transports, climate variability, and ecosystem behavior are particularly encouraged to submit.

Primary Convener:  Andrew Spencer Delman, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Angel Amores, Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies, University of the Balearic Islands, Esporles, Spain and Julius Johannes Marian Busecke, Princeton University, Department of Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Andrew Spencer Delman, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Chairs:  Andrew Spencer Delman, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States and Julius Johannes Marian Busecke, LDEO/Columbia University, NYC, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Julius Johannes Marian Busecke, LDEO/Columbia University, NYC, United States

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

1635 Oceans [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4215 Climate and interannual variability [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4513 Decadal ocean variability [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4520 Eddies and mesoscale processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Asymmetry variabilities of mesoscale eddy activity alongside the Kuroshio Extension (398311)
Mengrong Ding1, Pengfei Lin1, Hailong Liu2 and Aixue Hu3, (1)State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (LASG), Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100029, China, Beijing, China, (2)State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (LASG), Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (3)NCAR, Boulder, United States
The Western Alboran Gyre: an Eulerian Analysis of its Properties and their Budgets (360314)
Dr. Genevieve Jay Brett, PhD1,2, Lawrence J Pratt3 and Irina Rypina3, (1)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Cambridge, United States, (2)University of Hawaii at Manoa, International Pacific Research Center, Honolulu, HI, United States, (3)WHOI, Woods Hole, United States
Transient Enhancement and Decoupling of Carbon and Opal Export in Cyclonic Eddies (424517)
Minhan Dai, Xiamen University, State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen, China, Kuanbo Zhou, Xiamen University, State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science; College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen, China, Peng Xiu, SCSIO South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Acaademy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, Lei Wang, Xiamen University, State Key Lab of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen, China, Jianyu Hu, Xiamen University, State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science and College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen, China and Claudia R Benitez-Nelson, University of South Carolina, School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment, Columbia, United States
Global Changes in Mesoscale Eddy Kinetic Energy under Greenhouse Warming (422612)
Ryan P Abernathey, Earthmover PBC, New York, United States, Stephen Matthew Griffies, LOCEAN Laboratory, Sorbonne Université/CNRS/IRD/MNHN, Paris, France and Justin Small, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Resolving Mesoscale Dynamics in a Global Ocean (432683)
Doroteaciro Iovino, CMCC, Bologna, Italy, Simona Masina, Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Ocean Modeling and Data Assimilation Division, Bologna, Italy and Pier Giuseppe Fogli, Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici - CMCC, Bologna, Italy
Structure and Formation of Anticyclonic Eddies in the Iceland Basin (446169)
Jian Zhao1, Amy S Bower1, Jiayan Yang2, Xiaopei Lin3 and Chun Zhou4, (1)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography Department, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (3)Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China, (4)Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System (FDOMES) and Physical Oceanography Laboratory, Key Laboratory of Ocean Observation and Information of Hainan Province/Sanya Oceanographic Institution, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China

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