A54A:
The Ocean Surface Boundary Layer: Physical Processes and Roles in Weather, Climate, and Biogeochemistry II Posters
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Session ID#: 9952
Session Description:
The ocean surface boundary layer (OSBL) lies at the interface between the atmosphere and the ocean. It mediates energy and mass exchange between the two, with significant ramifications for a variety of climate, weather and biogeochemical phenomena.
Observations of upper ocean properties remain sparse and numerical models are limited by computational restrictions, incomplete representation of fine-scale turbulent processes, and boundary condition errors. Capturing OSBL variability on a global scale remains a critical challenge that requires the development of new approaches to observation, estimation and modeling. Recently, the OSBL has been the subject of intense theoretical study and turbulence resolving modeling, demonstrating, for example, that surface waves and sub-mesoscale processes play key roles in OSBL deepening and shoaling. These developments have motivated new in situ observational programs that are just beginning to report results. The combination of this new theory, large eddy modeling and observations has the potential to drive a new generation of OSBL parameterizations for numerical models and inform requirements for a global OSBL observing system. Abstracts that discuss theoretical, modeling, parameterization or observational studies of the OSBL, or work illustrating OSBL impacts on weather/climate or biogeochemical phenomena are all within scope.
Primary Chair: Daria J Halkides, Earth and Space Research, Seattle, WA, United States
Chairs: Stephen E Belcher, University of Reading, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom, Dimitris Menemenlis, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Baylor Fox-Kemper, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States
Moderators: Daria J Halkides, Earth and Space Research, Seattle, WA, United States, Stephen E Belcher, University of Reading, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom, Dimitris Menemenlis, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Baylor Fox-Kemper, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States
Student Paper Review Liaisons: Daria J Halkides, Earth and Space Research, Seattle, WA, United States and Baylor Fox-Kemper, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Observations and simulations of microplastic marine debris in the ocean surface boundary layer (90295)
Tobias Kukulka, University of Delaware, School of Marine Science and Policy, Newark, DE, United States, Kelsey Elizabeth Brunner, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, Giora K Proskurowski, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States and Kara L Lavender Law, Sea Education Association, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Determining Upper Ocean Vertical Mixing from Surface Chlorophyll-a Concentrations (91191)
Lisa Hahn-Woernle1, Hendrik A Dijkstra1 and Hans J van der Woerd2, (1)IMAU - Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Physics, Utrecht, Netherlands, (2)Institute for Environmental Studies, Department of Water and Climate Risk, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Turbulent Control Of The Ocean Surface Boundary Layer During The Onset Of Seasonal Stratification (89381)
Matthew Palmer1, Jo Hopkins1 and Juliane Uta Wihsgott2, (1)National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool, United Kingdom, (2)University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69, United Kingdom
The Time-Dependent Vertical Structure of Mixed-Layer Currents (87916)
Jacob O Wenegrat, University of Maryland College Park, Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, College Park, MD, United States and Michael J McPhaden, NOAA Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States
Seasonal and Regional Variability in North Pacific Upper-Ocean Turbulence (93200)
Ryan Creedon, The Pennsylvania State University, Meteorology, University Park, PA, United States, Meghan F Cronin, NOAA Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States and Raymond Najjar, The Pennsylvania State University, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, PA, United States
Observations of the Evolution of Turbulent Dissipation within the Ocean Surface Boundary Layer: an OSMOSIS study (89580)
Natasha Sarah Lucas1, John Allen2, Stephen E Belcher3, Tim Boyd4, Liam Brannigan5, Mark E Inall6, Matthew Palmer7, Jeff Polton7 and Tom Philip Rippeth8, (1)Bangor University, School of Ocean Sciences, Menai Bridge, United Kingdom, (2)University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom, (3)University of Reading, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom, (4)Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS), United Kingdom, (5)University of Oxford, Physics, Oxford, United Kingdom, (6)Scottish Association for Marine Science, Oban, United Kingdom, (7)National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool, United Kingdom, (8)Bangor University, School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor, Wales, United Kingdom
The OSMOSIS Model of the Wind-Driven Ocean Surface Boundary Layer. (88609)
Alan L Grant1, Stephen E Belcher1, Brodie Pearson2 and Jeff Polton3, (1)University of Reading, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom, (2)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, United States, (3)National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Observing and Modelling Upper Ocean Mixing by Near-Inertial Oscillations (91953)
Helen R Pillar1, Markus Jochum1, Roman Nuterman1 and Mats Bentsen2, (1)Niels Bohr Institute - University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, (2)Uni Research, Bergen, Norway
Towards a General Turbulence Model for Planetary Boundary Layers Based on Direct Statistical Simulation (88695)
Joseph Skitka, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Earth and Evironmental Sciences, Ann Arbor, United States, Brad Marston, Brown University, Physics, Providence, RI, United States and Baylor Fox-Kemper, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States
Turbulent Entrainment and Excitation of Internal Gravity Waves at the Base of the Surface Mixed Layer (89432)
Lars Czeschel, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany and Carsten Eden, University of Hamburg, Institute of Oceanography, Hamburg, Germany
Large-eddy Simulation of Ekman Layer Instabilities in the Ocean Mixed Layer: Comparison with Theory (89887)
Eric D Skyllingstad1, Jenessa R Duncombe2 and Roger M Samelson1, (1)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, United States, (2)Oregon State Univ, Corvallis, OR, United States
Large-eddy Simulation of a Coastal Ocean Under the Combined Effects of Surface Heat Fluxes and Langmuir Supercells (92583)
Andres E Tejadas-Martinez, University of South Florida, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tampa, FL, United States
Linear theory of roll instabilities in the ocean surface layer (92255)
Jenessa R Duncombe1, Eric D Skyllingstad2 and Roger M Samelson2, (1)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, United States
Parameterization of Langmuir Turbulence in Second Moment Closure Models and the Prediction of Near-surface Dispersion for Buoyant Tracers. (93086)
Ramsey R Harcourt, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, United States
Parameterization for Submesoscale-Permitting Simulations: From Ideal to Traditional to Novel Including Symmetric Instabilities (90668)
Jinxuan Zhu, Brown University, Earth Environment and Planetary Science, Providence, RI, United States, Baylor Fox-Kemper, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, Scott Bachman, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Luke P Van Roekel, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, Peter Hamlington, University of Colorado at Boulder, Mechanical Engineering, Boulder, United States, John Ryan Taylor, University of Cambridge, DAMTP, Cambridge, United Kingdom and Leif N Thomas, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Numerical Investigation of Interactions between Surface Waves and Upper-Ocean Turbulence (92741)
Anqing Xuan1,2, Bingqing Deng2,3 and Lian Shen4,5, (1)University of Minnesota, Department of Mechanical Engineering & St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, Minneapolis, United States, (2)University of Minnesota, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (3)University of Minnesota, Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (4)University of Minnesota, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (5)University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States
A framework for evaluating simulated mixed layer depth biases as applied to MPAS-Ocean (91407)
Luke P Van Roekel, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, Todd D. Ringler, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Climate, Ocean and Sea-Ice Modelling, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Milena Veneziani, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Peter P Sullivan, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, Stephen Matthew Griffies, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, Alistair Adcroft, Program for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, United States and Gokhan Danabasoglu, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics, Boulder, United States
Ocean Surface Mixed Layer Property Quantification: A Comparison And Evaluation Of Results From Different Ocean State Estimates And Numerical Simulations (93262)
Daria J Halkides, Earth and Space Research, Seattle, WA, United States, Dimitris Menemenlis, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Hong Zhang, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Duane Edward Waliser, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Christopher N Hill, MIT, Cambridge, United States
