AI11A:
Ocean Salinity and Its Role in Ocean Dynamics and the Water Cycle I


Session ID#: 36649

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 Jacqueline Boutin, CNRS, LOCEAN/UPMC, Paris, France
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:

Consistent Transition of Salinity Retrievals from Aquarius to SMAP (302935)
Thomas Meissner, Frank J Wentz, Andrew Manaster and Richard Lindsley, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA, United States
The JPL SMAP Sea Surface Salinity Retrieval Algorithm (326273)
Alexander Fore1, Simon H Yueh2, Wenqing Tang1 and Akiko Hayashi3, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
SMOS and SMAP SSS in good agreement after the revision of SMOS/CATDS systematic errors mitigation (306268)
Jacqueline Boutin1, Jean-Luc Vergely2, Stéphane Marchand3, Francesco D'Amico3, Audrey Emilie Alice Hasson4, Nicolas Kolodziejczyk5, Nicolas Reul6 and Gilles P Reverdin7, (1)CNRS, LOCEAN/UPMC, Paris, France, (2)ACRI-st, Sophia-Antipolis, France, (3)LOCEAN CNRS, France, (4)CNES French National Center for Space Studies, LOCEAN, Toulouse Cedex 09, France, (5)LOPS (UBO), Plouzane, France, (6)IFREMER, Plouzané, France, (7)LOCEAN Univ Paris VI boite 100, Paris, France
SMAP and CalCOFI observe freshening during the 2014-2016 Northeast Pacific warm event (314278)
Jose Gomez-Valdes, Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada, Ensenada, Mexico and Jorge Vazquez, Jet Propulsion Laboratory/ California Insitute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Rainfall imprint on SMOS and SMAP Sea Surface Salinity (306305)
Alexandre Supply, LOCEAN, Paris Cedex 05, France, Jacqueline Boutin, CNRS, LOCEAN/UPMC, Paris, France, Jean-Luc Vergely, ACRI-st, Sophia-Antipolis, France, Audrey Emilie Alice Hasson, CNES French National Center for Space Studies, LOCEAN, Toulouse Cedex 09, France, Gilles P Reverdin, LOCEAN Univ Paris VI boite 100, Paris, France, Cecile Mallet, LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris Cedex 05, France and Nicolas Viltard, CNRS, LATMOS, PARIS, France
Impact of Aquarius and SMAP Sea Surface Salinity Observations on Coupled Forecasts for the Tropical Indo-Pacific (310946)
Eric C Hackert, NASA/Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Robin M Kovach, NASA, GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Antonio J Busalacchi, President, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Joaquim Ballabrera-Poy, ICM-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain and Guillaume Vernières, JCSDA/UCAR/NOAA, College PARK, MD, United States

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