AI14A:
Ocean Salinity and Its Role in Ocean Dynamics and the Water Cycle IV Posters


Session ID#: 29646

Session Description:
This session highlights research investigating ocean salinity as a key parameter that links various elements of the water cycle to ocean circulation dynamics and climate. Contributions are invited on all aspects of ocean salinity investigations, including analyses undertaken from in situ and satellite observations, numerical models, and data assimilation. We particularly welcome contributions that have utilized sea-surface salinity (SSS) measurements from the recent pathfinder satellite missions (SMOS, Aquarius/SAC-D, and SMAP), as well as observations collected during the SPURS (Salinity Processes Upper-ocean Regional Study) experiment and other field campaigns. The session will focus on: recent progress from salinity remote sensing; new process-based insights from field observations; salinity-driven thermohaline circulation, upper-ocean stratification, and related ocean dynamics; links between salinity and global and regional climate variability; the water cycle, as well as the fingerprint of long-term change; salinity assimilation into ocean models; and the scientific imperative for future salinity measurement continuity and enhancement.
Primary Chair:  Paul James Durack, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Co-chairs:  Eric J Bayler, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD, United States, Jacqueline Boutin, LOCEAN, Paris Cedex 05, France and Severine Fournier, JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States
Moderators:  Eric J Bayler, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD, United States and Paul James Durack, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Severine Fournier, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
Index Terms:

1610 Atmosphere [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1635 Oceans [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1655 Water cycles [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4504 Air/sea interactions [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Cross-Topics:
  • PL - Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Larger
  • PS - Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Smaller
  • RS - Regional Studies

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A mechanistic synthesis of turbulence measurements made during SPURS-2 (Invited) (305702)
Kyla Drushka1, Bill Asher2, Elizabeth Jennifer Thompson2, Suneil Iyer2, Andy T Jessup1 and Dan Clark1, (1)Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
A Study of the Rain Impact Model (RIM) under Different Wind Speed Conditions (322985)
Maria Marta Jacob1, W. Linwood Jones2, Kyla Drushka3, Bill Asher3 and Marcelo Scavuzzo1, (1)Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Facultad de Matematica, Astronomia y Fisica, Cordoba, Argentina, (2)University of Central Florida, Central Florida Remote Sensing Laboratory, Orlando, FL, United States, (3)Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
New SMOS/CATDS retrieval overcomes previous issues in the Bay of Bengal: assessment of its seasonal and interannual surface salinity variability. (320719)
Akhil Valiya Parambil, National Institute of Oceanography, Panaji-Goa, India, Jérôme Vialard, LOCEAN-IPSL, Paris cedex 05, France, Matthieu Lengaigne, National Institute of Occeanography, Goa, India, M. G. Keerthi, PhD Student, Marine Science Department, Goa University, Panaji, Goa, India, Jacqueline Boutin, CNRS, LOCEAN/UPMC, Paris, France, Jean-Luc Vergely, ACRI-st, Sophia-Antipolis, France and Stéphane Marchand, LOCEAN CNRS, France
Long-Term Observations of Salinity Transport Along the Pathway of the North Atlantic Current at 47°N (305450)
Ilaria Stendardo1, Reiner Steinfeldt1, Monika Rhein1,2, Achim Roessler1,2, Vasco Müller1,2 and Dagmar Kieke1,2, (1)University of Bremen, Institute of Environmental Physics, Bremen, Germany, (2)University of Bremen, MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, Bremen, Germany
Modulation of the Ganges-Brahmaputra river plume by the Indian Ocean Dipole and eddies inferred from satellite observations (313245)
Severine Fournier, JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, Jérôme Vialard, LOCEAN-IPSL, Paris cedex 05, France, Matthieu Lengaigne, National Institute of Occeanography, Goa, India, Tong Lee, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Michelle M Gierach, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Akurathi Venkata Sai Chaitanya, National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, India

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