PO14D:
Mesoscale and Submesoscale Processes: Characterization, Dynamics, and Representation III Posters
PO14D:
Mesoscale and Submesoscale Processes: Characterization, Dynamics, and Representation III Posters
Mesoscale and Submesoscale Processes: Characterization, Dynamics, and Representation III Posters
Session ID#: 11470
Session Description:
Mesoscale and submesoscale features such as coherent eddies, fronts, jets, and striations are ubiquitous in the world ocean. These features contribute significantly to horizontal and vertical transport and mixing, and have important interactions with the larger and smaller scale circulations, as well as with the physical and biogeochemical components of the climate system. However many aspects of their structure, evolution, and impacts are not fully understood, and they remain poorly represented in large-scale models.
This unified session invites reports on theoretical, observational, and modeling studies on all topics relating to mesoscale and submesoscale phenomena such as eddies, fronts, and jets, and in particular on the following three themes:
(i) Detection, observation, and description of mesoscale and submesoscale features and their dynamics
(ii) Understanding mesoscale and submesoscale impacts, transport characteristics, and interactions with the circulation, as well as surface, biogeochemical and climate processes
(iii) Representing mesoscale and submesoscale processes in numerical models, and model sensitivity to such parameterizations.
We aim to showcase novel methods and results that make the most of the rapidly growing sophistication of the datasets and models available, with the hope of inspiring an improved understanding of eddy processes and their role in the global climate system.
This unified session invites reports on theoretical, observational, and modeling studies on all topics relating to mesoscale and submesoscale phenomena such as eddies, fronts, and jets, and in particular on the following three themes:
(i) Detection, observation, and description of mesoscale and submesoscale features and their dynamics
(ii) Understanding mesoscale and submesoscale impacts, transport characteristics, and interactions with the circulation, as well as surface, biogeochemical and climate processes
(iii) Representing mesoscale and submesoscale processes in numerical models, and model sensitivity to such parameterizations.
We aim to showcase novel methods and results that make the most of the rapidly growing sophistication of the datasets and models available, with the hope of inspiring an improved understanding of eddy processes and their role in the global climate system.
Primary Chair: Stephanie Waterman, University of British Columbia, Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Chairs: Shane R Keating, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Ryo Furue, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan and Mehmet Ilicak, Uni Research, Bergen, Norway
Moderators: Stephanie Waterman, University of British Columbia, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada and Shane R Keating, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Student Paper Review Liaison: Shane R Keating, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Index Terms:
4520 Eddies and mesoscale processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4594 Instruments and techniques [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Evolution and modulation of a poleward-propagating anticyclonic eddy along the Japan and Kuril-Kamchatka trenches (89292)
Eddies on the boundary between the Kuroshio current and coastal waters observed by HF ocean surface radar (88608)
Shipboard observations of a mesoscale eddy pair in the California Current System off the northern Baja California coast (89146)
SMALL SCALE OCEAN DYNAMICS IN THE CAPE BASIN, SOUTH OF AFRICA, AND THE IMPACT ON THE OCEAN CIRCULATION. (89412)
Observations of Submesoscale Processes in an Anticyclonic Eddy in the South China Sea (89346)
Mesoscale and Submesoscale Eddies Identified from Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery in the Luzon Strait and Adjacent Waters (89276)
Spatio-temporal evolution of two key processes impacting the observed vertical structure of the mesoscale eddies in the 4 major Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems. (90978)
The Contribution of Mesoscale Features to the Divergence of Numerical Ocean Model Ensembles (91176)
Dynamic investigation of formation process of long-lived anti-cyclonic eddy train in the South China Sea (91208)
The 3-D evolutions of a deep-reaching anticyclonic eddy in the northeastern South China Sea (93544)
A New Insight on the Indo-Atlantic Exchange Achieved by Indian Ocean Eddies Assessed by Satellite Altimetry and Argo Profiling Float Data. (91197)
Three-Dimensional In Situ Measurements of a Large Anticyclonic Eddy and Surrounding Waters in the Eastern Caribbean Sea (91612)
Inferring Upper Ocean Dynamics from Horizontal Wavenumber Spectra in the Southern California Current System (90396)
Evidence of enhanced double-diffusive convection below the main stream of the Kuroshio Extension (87623)
Evaluation of an eddy resolving global model at the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study site (92791)
Decadal Variation of Mesoscale Eddy Activity in the South Pacific Subtropical Counter-current (93818)
DT2014 Version of Ssalto/DUACS Altimeter Products: 21 Years Sea Level Products Reprocessed (87533)
Vortex formation downstream of a cape: an analysis of anticyclone formation off Hawaii. (93515)
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