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, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States and I-I Lin, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Moderators:  Gregory R Foltz, NOAA Miami, Miami, FL, United States and Karthik Balaguru, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, 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 Ginis4 and Peter P Sullivan5, (1)University of Delaware, School of Marine Science and Policy, Newark, DE, United States, (2)Princeton University, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, Princeton, United States, (3)NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, (4)University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI, United States, (5)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States
Stratified Coastal Ocean Response and Feedbacks on Landfalling Hurricane Intensity (321697)
Scott M Glenn1, Gregory N Seroka2, Travis N Miles3, Josh T Kohut3, Oscar Schofield4, Gregg A. Jacobs5 and Patrick J Hogan6, (1)Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (2)Coast Survey Development Laboratory, National Ocean Service, NOAA, Silver Spring, United States, (3)Rutgers University, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, New Brunswick, United States, (4)Rutgers University, Center of Ocean Observing Leadership, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, New Brunswick, United States, (5)US Naval Research Laboratory, Ocean Sciences Division, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (6)Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States
Scaling of Drag Coefficients under Five Tropical Cyclones (304079)
Je-Yuan Hsu, Applied Physics Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States, Ren-Chieh Lien, Applied Physics Laboratory, Seattle, United States, Eric A D'Asaro, Applied Physics Lab, Univ of Washington, Seattle, United States and Thomas Bayes Sanford, 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, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States and Samson M Hagos, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Atmospheric Climate and Earth Sciences, Richland, United States

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