AI51B:
Tropical Cyclone-Ocean Interactions: From Weather to Climate II


Session ID#: 36668

Session Description:
Tropical cyclone (TC)-ocean interactions are critical for TC intensity changes because the ocean is the energy source for TCs. Air-sea interaction processes involve energy and momentum exchange between TCs and the ocean and are important on TC (i.e., short-term) and climate (i.e., long-term) timescales. On shorter timescales, TC-ocean interactions are critical for intensity forecasting. The intense winds of TCs also significantly impact the ocean through entrainment mixing and upwelling. On climate timescales, the evolving state of the ocean has strong implications for future TC activity projections and consequential societal impact. In particular, natural interannual (e.g., ENSO) and inter-decadal variability (e.g., the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation) and global warming affect the ocean, TCs, and their interactions. This session welcomes submissions under the broad discipline of TC-ocean physical and biogeochemical interactions from weather to climate timescales. It intends to provide a friendly platform for interactions among oceanographers, atmospheric scientists, and climatologists in this multi-disciplinary field.
Primary Chair:  Gregory R Foltz, NOAA Miami, Miami, FL, United States
Co-chairs:  Karthik Balaguru, PNNL, Marine Sciences Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States and I-I Lin, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Moderators:  Gregory R Foltz, NOAA Miami, Miami, FL, United States and Karthik Balaguru, PNNL, Marine Sciences Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Gregory R Foltz, NOAA Miami, Miami, FL, United States
Index Terms:

1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4504 Air/sea interactions [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4572 Upper ocean and mixed layer processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4805 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
Cross-Topics:
  • BN - Biogeochemistry and Nutrients
  • PC - Past, Present and Future Climate
  • PL - Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Larger

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Investigation of Precipitation on Upper-Ocean Stratification during Hurricanes Irene (2011) and Harvey (2017) (322040)
Joseph B Zambon, North Carolina State University Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States, Ruoying He, NC State University, Raleigh, NC, United States, John C Warner, U.S. Geological Survey. Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Haibo Zong, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States
Upper Ocean Temperature and Salinity Observations During the Passage of Hurricane Irma (320241)
Elizabeth Sanabia1, Steven R Jayne2, Pelle Robbins3 and Alex Ekholm3, (1)US Naval Academy, Department of Oceanography, Annapolis, MD, United States, (2)WHOI, Department of Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (3)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States

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