PO24C:
Mode and Intermediate Waters: Their Contributions to Physical, Biological, Chemical, and Climate Processes Posters
PO24C:
Mode and Intermediate Waters: Their Contributions to Physical, Biological, Chemical, and Climate Processes Posters
Mode and Intermediate Waters: Their Contributions to Physical, Biological, Chemical, and Climate Processes Posters
Session ID#: 9579
Session Description:
Mode and intermediate waters are ubiquitous features of the upper ocean. Formed at the air-sea interface near strong currents, they contribute to numerous physical, biological, chemical, and climate processes and constitute a means of communication between high and low latitudes. This session aims to examine recent advances in our knowledge of these wide-ranging water masses. Abstracts are welcome that address diverse physical, biogeochemical, and climate aspects of mode and intermediate waters: their formation and ventilation; their pathways to lower latitudes; their impact on surface and subsurface ocean biology and chemistry; and their variability on timescales from interannual to ice age.
Primary Chair: Patrick A Rafter, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
Chairs: James Holte, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Patrick A Rafter, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
Moderators: Patrick A Rafter, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States and James Holte, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Student Paper Review Liaisons: Patrick A Rafter, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States and James Holte, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Index Terms:
4283 Water masses [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4532 General circulation [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4805 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
4806 Carbon cycling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
Co-Sponsor(s):
- B - Biogeochemistry and Nutrients
- CT - Chemical Tracers, DOM and Trace Metals
- PC - Past, Present and Future Climate
- PP - Phytoplankton and Primary Production
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
The nonlinear equation of state of sea water and the global water mass distribution (87967)
Cross-Mean Flow Spreading of North Pacific Central Mode Water: Property Transport by Mesoscale Eddies (89456)
Understanding the Steric Height Long Term Variability at the Bermuda Atlantic Time-Series Study (BATS) Site with a Neutral Density Approach (91306)
Subsurface structure of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and its relation to the mode waters (88392)
Multi-Decadal Decline in the Formation of Antarctic Intermediate Water: A High-Resolution Model Hindcast (89547)
Decadal Variability of North Pacific Subtropical Mode Water using a Long-term High-resolution Ocean Reanalysis Product (93457)
See more of: Physical Oceanography/Ocean Circulation