A34C:
Properties of the Ocean Surface that Directly Influence Air-Sea Exchange and Upper Ocean Dynamics III Posters


Session ID#: 9452

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, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland, Lonneke Goddijn-Murphy, University of the Highlands and Islands, Thurso, United Kingdom and Aaron C Paget, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, United States
Moderators:  Kai H Christensen, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway, Brian Ward, National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG), School of Physics, Galway, Ireland, 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:

 
A34C-2659
The Development and Application of an Inversion Technique to Extract Vertical Current Profiles from X-Band Observations of the Wavefield in both Shallow and Deep Water Environments (86849)
Jeffrey Campana1, Tony de Paolo1 and Eric J Terrill2, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)SIO, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, United States
 
A34C-2660
Surface gravity wave and double diffusion effects to the upper ocean dynamics:an improved MY2.5 turbulence closure model and it's verification (87676)
Wei Yu, Environment Canada, Dorval, QC, Canada; Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Key Laboratory of Ocean Circulation and Wave Studies, CAS, Qingdao, Shangdong Sheng, China and Jinbao Song, Zhejiang University, Ocean College, Zhoushan, China
 
A34C-2661
Maritime Aerosol Network as a Component of AERONET - a Useful Tool for Evaluation of the Global Sea-Salt Aerosol Distribution (87898)
Alexander Smirnov1, Brent Holben2, Stefan Kinne3, Norman B Nelson4, Georgiy L Stenchikov5, Stephen P Broccardo6, Derek Sowers7, Elizabeth Lobecker8, Michael Ondrusek9, Tymon Przemyslaw Zielinski10, Lindsay McKenna Gray11, Robert Frouin12, Vladimir F Radionov13, Timothy J Smyth14, Giuseppe Zibordi15, Maija Iris Heller16, Violeta Slabakova17, Kirstin Krüger18, Elizabeth A Reid19, Larysa Istomina20, Ryan Anthony Vandermeulen21, Norman T. O'Neill22, Gad Levy23, David Matthew Giles1, Ilya Slutsker1, Mikhail G Sorokin2 and Thomas F Eck24, (1)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Atmosphere, Hamburg, Germany, (4)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (5)King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, (6)University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, (7)Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping Joint Hydrographic Center, Durham, NH, United States, (8)NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)NOAA College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (10)Institute of Oceanology, Sopot, Poland, (11)Earth Resources Technology Inc., Silver Spring, MD, United States, (12)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, (13)Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, Saint Petersburg, Russia, (14)Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, United Kingdom, (15)JRC, Ispra, Italy, (16)University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Ocean Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (17)Institute of Oceanology, Varna, Bulgaria, (18)University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, (19)Naval Research Lab Monterey, Monterey, CA, United States, (20)University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (21)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/SSAI, Ocean Ecology Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (22)University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada, (23)NorthWest Research Associates, Inc, Redmond, WA, United States, (24)Nasa Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
A34C-2664
A new Geophysical Model Function for estimating whitecap coverage from Ku-band scatterometers (88768)
Aaron C Paget, University of Connecticut, Marine Sciences, Groton, CT, United States
 
A34C-2665
Approximate Stokes Drift Profiles and their use in Ocean Modelling (89455)
Oyvind Breivik, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Bergen, Norway, Jean Biblot, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, United Kingdom and Peter A.E.M Janssen, European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom
 
A34C-2666
The Wave Boundary Layer Depth and Actively Coupled Wind-driven Wave Scales (90618)
Alejandro Cifuentes-Lorenzen1, James B Edson1, Christopher J Zappa2 and Kaylan L Randolph3, (1)University of Connecticut, Marine Sciences, Groton, CT, United States, (2)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)University of Connecticut, Groton, CT, United States
 
A34C-2667
Evaluation of the atmospheric pressure effects in the future Mercator Ocean global 1/4° configuration. (90960)
Romain Bourdalle-Badie, Mercator Océan, Ramonville Saint Agne, France, Jerome Chanut, Mercator Océan, Ramonville-Saint-Agne, France, Clement Bricaud, Mercator-Ocean, Ramonville Saint-Agne, France, Guillaume Reffray, Mercator Ocean, R&D, ramonville Saint Agne, France and Matthieu Chevallier, Météo-France Toulouse, Toulouse Cedex 01, France
 
A34C-2668
Sea-state dependent exchange coefficients under strongly stable atmosphere (91115)
Göran Broström, University of Gothenburg, Department of Marine Sciences, Gothenburg, Sweden
 
A34C-2670
Setting an Upper Limit on Gas Exchange Through Sea-Spray (93585)
Penny Vlahos1, Edward C Monahan1 and Edgar L Andreas2, (1)University of Connecticut, Marine Sciences, Groton, CT, United States, (2)Northwest Resaearch Associates
 
A34C-2672
Estimates of Mixed and Mixing Layer Depths from ASIP (91806)
Brian Ward, National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG), School of Physics, Galway, Ireland, Graig Sutherland, University of Oslo, Dept. of Mathematics, Oslo, Norway, Anneke Ten Doeschate, NUI Galway, Ireland, Leonie Tabea Esters, National University of Ireland, Galway, AirSea Laboratory, Galway, Ireland and Kai H Christensen, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway
 
A34C-2673
Wave Measurements in Landfast Ice in Svalbard: Evolution of Wave Propagation following Wind Waves to Swell Transition (92059)
Jean Rabault1, Graig Sutherland1, Atle Jensen1, Kai H Christensen2, Brian Ward3, Aleksey V Marchenko4, Eugene Morozov5, Olav Gundersen1, Trygve Halsne1 and Erika Lindstrøm1, (1)University of Oslo, Dept. of Mathematics, Oslo, Norway, (2)Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway, (3)National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG), School of Physics, Galway, Ireland, (4)University Center in Svlabard, Department of Arctic Technology, Longyearbyen, Denmark, (5)P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Moscow, Russia
 
A34C-2674
A Robust Definition for the Turbulent Langmuir Number (92140)
Kai H Christensen1, Oyvind Breivik1, Graig Sutherland2, Stephen E Belcher3 and Ann Gargett4, (1)Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway, (2)University of Oslo, Dept. of Mathematics, Oslo, Norway, (3)University of Reading, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom, (4)Institute of Ocean Sciences, Sidney, BC, Canada
 
A34C-2675
Improved quantification of SST dynamics from a new inverse method (92374)
Stephen A Jeffress, University of Oxford, Atmospheric Physics, Oxford, United Kingdom and Thomas W N Haine, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States
 
A34C-2676
DNS and Measurements of Scalar Transfer Across an Air-water Interface During Inception and Growth of Langmuir Circulation  (93404)
Amine Hafsi, University of South Florida, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Tampa, FL, United States, Andres E Tejada-Martinez, University of South Florida, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tampa, FL, United States, Fabrice Veron, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States and Marc P Buckley, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Institute of Coastal Research, Geesthacht, Germany
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