A33A:
Properties of the Ocean Surface that Directly Influence Air-Sea Exchange and Upper Ocean Dynamics II


Session ID#: 11368

Session Description:
The dynamical properties of the air-sea interface directly influence air-sea exchange of mass, momentum and energy. The presence of whitecaps, sea ice, oil spills, or surfactants will have a significant impact on the upper ocean dynamics, often in a complex interplay between the surface material, the mean flows in the air and water, and the surface waves. As far as ocean circulation models are concerned, such processes must be parameterized by changing the surface boundary conditions and/or modifying the internal model dynamics. One such example is the inclusion of sea state dependent momentum and energy fluxes, which is highly relevant for modeling the transport of dispersed oil or pelagic plankton.
 
In this session we welcome theoretical, numerical, and experimental studies of the properties of the air-sea interface. This includes how various surface covers impact on surface waves and also how the upper ocean currents and mixing depend on the waves and the properties of the air-sea interface itself.
Primary Chair:  Kai H Christensen, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway
Chairs:  Brian Ward, National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG), School of Physics, Galway, Ireland, Graig Sutherland, University of Oslo, Dept. of Mathematics, Oslo, Norway, Oyvind Breivik, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Bergen, Norway, Edward C Monahan, University of Connecticut, Marine Sciences, Groton, CT, United States, Adrian H Callaghan, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Lonneke Goddijn-Murphy, University of the Highlands and Islands, Thurso, United Kingdom and Aaron C Paget, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, United States
Moderators:  Brian Ward, National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG), School of Physics, Galway, Ireland, Kai H Christensen, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway, Edward C Monahan, University of Connecticut, Marine Sciences, Groton, CT, United States and Lonneke Goddijn-Murphy, University of the Highlands and Islands, Thurso, United Kingdom
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Graig Sutherland, University of Oslo, Dept. of Mathematics, Oslo, Norway
Index Terms:

4504 Air/sea interactions [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4540 Ice mechanics and air/sea/ice exchange processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4560 Surface waves and tides [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4572 Upper ocean and mixed layer processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • IS - Instrumentation & Sensing Technologies
  • OD - Ocean Observing and Data Management
  • PO - Physical Oceanography/Ocean Circulation
  • TP - Turbulent Processes

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A33A-01
Radiometric Measurements of Whitecaps and Surface Fluxes (88795)
Magdalena D Anguelova, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States
A33A-02
Infrared Remote Sensing of Cooling Whitecap Foam to Quantify Wave Breaking Dissipation (89873)
Andy T Jessup, Univ Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, C Chris Chickadel, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States and Ruth Branch, University of Washington, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States
A33A-03
Novel Methods for Optically Measuring Whitecaps Under Natural Wave Breaking Conditions in the Southern Ocean (90615)
Kaylan L Randolph1, Heidi M Dierssen1, Alejandro Cifuentes-Lorenzen1, William M Balch2, Edward C Monahan1, Christopher J Zappa3, David Drapeau2 and Bruce Bowler2, (1)University of Connecticut, Marine Sciences, Groton, CT, United States, (2)Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, United States, (3)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
A33A-04
Observations of whitecaps during HiWinGS, their dependence on wave field, and relation to gas transfer velocities (93258)
Sophia E Brumer, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Christopher J Zappa, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Chris W Fairall, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Byron Blomquist, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Ian M Brooks, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, Hitoshi Tamura, JAMSTEC RIGC, Kanagawa, Japan, Mingxi Yang, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, United Kingdom and Barry J Huebert, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
A33A-05
Observations of wave-breaking turbulence and whitecap coverage, and the relation to wind stress and wave slope (87775)
Michael Schwendeman, Applied Physics Lab (UW), Seattle, WA, United States and Jim Thomson, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
A33A-06
--> Air entrainment and bubble statistics in three-dimensional breaking waves (90001)
Luc Deike, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, Stephane Popinet, University Pierre and Marie Curie Paris VI, Institut Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Paris, France and Wallace Kendall Melville, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
A33A-07
Sea-State Dependence of Aerosol Concentration in the Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer (91505)
Luc Lenain, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States and Wallace Kendall Melville, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
A33A-08
Bubble Models of Air-sea Gas Exchange, a Synthesis (88664)
Lonneke Goddijn-Murphy, University of the Highlands and Islands, Environmental Research Institute, Thurso, United Kingdom, David Kevin Woolf, Heriot-Watt University, ICIT, Stromness, United Kingdom, Adrian H Callaghan, University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Philip David Nightingale, Plymouth Marine Lab, Plymouth, United Kingdom and Jamie D Shutler, University of Exeter, Centre for Geography, Environment and Society, Penryn, United Kingdom
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