AI52A:
Tropical Cyclone-Ocean Interactions: From Weather to Climate III


Session ID#: 36674

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:

The Response of the Ocean Surface Boundary Layer and Langmuir Turbulence to Tropical Cyclones (307157)
Dong Wang1, Tobias Kukulka1, Brandon G Reichl2,3, Tetsu Hara4, Isaac Ginis5 and Peter P Sullivan6, (1)University of Delaware, School of Marine Science and Policy, Newark, DE, United States, (2)Princeton University, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (4)University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI, United States, (5)Univ Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, United States, (6)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Mesoscale Microscale Meteorology, Boulder, CO, United States
Stratified Coastal Ocean Response and Feedbacks on Landfalling Hurricane Intensity (321697)
Scott M Glenn1, Gregory N Seroka2, Travis N Miles2, Josh T Kohut2, Oscar Schofield3, Gregg Arthur Jacobs4 and Patrick J Hogan5, (1)Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (2)Rutgers University, Marine and Coastal Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (3)Rutgers University, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (4)Naval Research Lab Stennis Space Center, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (5)Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States
Scaling of Drag Coefficients under Five Tropical Cyclones (304079)
Je-Yuan Hsu1, Ren-Chieh Lien1, Eric A D'Asaro2 and Thomas Bayes Sanford2, (1)Applied Physics Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)Applied Physics Lab, Univ of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
Inter-basin differences in the relationship between SST and tropical cyclone intensification (302363)
Gregory R Foltz, NOAA Miami, Miami, FL, United States, Karthik Balaguru, PNNL, Marine Sciences Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States and Samson M Hagos, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Atmospheric Sciences & Global Change Division, Richland, WA, United States

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