PO53E:
Satellite-Data-Based Studies of Heat and Freshwater Budgets and the Air-Sea Interface: From Diurnal to Decadal Timescales I


Session ID#: 9530

Session Description:
The continuous record of satellite data over the last 30 years has allowed fundamental advances in our understanding of processes that control the heat and freshwater budgets of the ocean and their variability over a broad range of timescales.  Satellite altimetry measurements of sea level, microwave based measurements of sea surface temperature, scatterometer winds, gravity measurements that give us the mass distribution, and new measurements of sea surface salinity have all contributed to this understanding.  This session will bring together scientists who work to synthesize satellite data along with in situ observations and models to improve our understanding of the controls of the ocean heat and fresh water budgets and the ocean interaction with the atmosphere on diurnal to decadal time-scales.  We especially encourage submissions that focus on the way in which oceanic processes control the exchange with and impacts on the atmosphere.
Primary Chair:  LuAnne Thompson, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States
Chairs:  Sarah T Gille, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, United States and Bo Qiu, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
Moderators:  LuAnne Thompson, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States and Bo Qiu, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
Student Paper Review Liaison:  LuAnne Thompson, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States
Index Terms:

4275 Remote sensing and electromagnetic processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4504 Air/sea interactions [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4572 Upper ocean and mixed layer processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4576 Western boundary currents [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Air-sea Interactions and Upper Ocean Processes
  • PC - Past, Present and Future Climate

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

PO53E-01
Long-term warming in the Southern Ocean: Evaluating the role of air-sea exchange and the upper ocean (88344)
Sarah T Gille, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, United States
PO53E-02
An Analysis of the Southern Ocean's Barotropic Response to the Wind During the Past 20 Years: Contributions to Sea-Surface Height Variations (91125)
Frederic Vivier, CNRS, LOCEAN-IPSL, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, Wilbert Weijer, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Young-Hyang Park, MNHN National Museum of Natural History Paris, Paris, France
PO53E-03
Altimetry-derived Gulf Stream Property Changes: Is the Sea Level Rise Along the U.S. Eastcoast Linked to the Gulf Stream Slow Down? (90471)
Shenfu Dong, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, Molly O'Neil Baringer, NOAA/AOML/PHOD, Miami, FL, United States and Gustavo Jorge Goni, NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Miami, FL, United States
PO53E-04
Sources of Meridional Heat and Freshwater Transport Anomalies in the Atlantic Ocean (88223)
Kathryn A Kelly, Univ of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, LuAnne Thompson, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States and Kyla Drushka, University of Washington, Applied Physics Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States
PO53E-05
Improved regional sea-level estimates from present day mass fluxes from Ice Sheets, Glaciers and land water using GRACE (92274)
Chia-Wei Hsu and Isabella Velicogna, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
PO53E-06
Variability and Uncertainties in Water Masses Formation Estimation from Space (92172)
Roberto Sabia, Telespazio-Vega for European Space Agency, Frascati, Italy, Marlene Klockmann, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, Craig Donlon, European Space Agency, ESTEC, Villanueva De La Can, Spain and Diego Fernandez-Prieto, European Space Research Institute (ESRIN) - European Space Agency (ESA), Frascati, Italy
PO53E-07
Observations and Models of Oceanic Diurnal Warming (92654)
Chelle L Gentemann1, Santha Akella2, Herve Roquet3, Stephane saux Picart3 and Anastasia Tarasenko4, (1)None, Santa Rosa, CA, United States, (2)Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Meteo France, CMS, Lannion, France, (4)IFREMER, LOS, Brest, France
PO53E-08
Diurnal warming impacts on atmospheric and oceanic evolution during the suppressed phase of the Madden Julian Oscillation (93631)
Carol Anne Clayson, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Jason Roberts, NASA-MSFC, AL, United States
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