AI34A:
Advances in Understanding Ocean Eddies and Their Interactions with the Atmosphere II Posters
AI34A:
Advances in Understanding Ocean Eddies and Their Interactions with the Atmosphere II Posters
Advances in Understanding Ocean Eddies and Their Interactions with the Atmosphere II Posters
Session ID#: 28123
Session Description:
The ocean, like the atmosphere, is a fundamentally turbulent system. As such, intense nonlinear interactions give rise to fine-scale structures, such as eddies, fronts, jets and filaments, that are of critical importance for the ocean circulation. These features are ubiquitous, and they have been recognized as key contributors to ocean transport of properties. Their energy generally exceeds that of the mean flow by an order of magnitude or more. Mounting evidence points to intense interactions, especially in the extratropics, between the atmosphere and the ocean on the scales of ocean eddies, which are much smaller than atmospheric synoptic scales. These interactions can have an important impact on the entire troposphere, affecting the positions of jet streams and their low-frequency variability, and they are likely a key-missing element in closing the budget of Earth’s energy imbalance. Theoretical understanding of eddy dynamics, especially in terms of air-sea interactions, however, remains incomplete. This represents an acute weakness in our present understanding of coupled ocean-atmosphere dynamics and its role in shaping variability and change of Earth’s climate.
We encourage submissions of abstracts describing new research findings, from observations and numerical modeling, on ocean mesoscale eddies, including their interactions with and feedbacks from the atmosphere.
Primary Chair: Sabrina Speich, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris, Paris, France
Co-chairs: Walter A Robinson, North Carolina State University Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States, Enrique Curchitser, Rutgers University New Brunswick, Environmental Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States and Xiaopei Lin, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
Moderators: Sabrina Speich, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris, Paris, France and Walter A Robinson, North Carolina State University Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison: Walter A Robinson, North Carolina State University Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States
Index Terms:
4504 Air/sea interactions [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4520 Eddies and mesoscale processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4572 Upper ocean and mixed layer processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Cross-Topics:
- PL - Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Larger
- PS - Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Smaller
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Temporal Variability of the Gulf Stream Eddies and its Connection to the Atmospheric Forcing (326566)
Forcing of mesoscale eddy kinetic energy variability in the southern subtropical Indian Ocean (325102)
Frequency-Domain Analysis of Energy Transfer in an Idealized, Eddy-Resolving Ocean-Atmosphere Model (325388)
The impact of air-sea interaction at the mesoscale on global ocean eddy potential energy generation (324278)
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