AI41A:
Turbulent Air-Sea Fluxes: Observations and Modeling II


Session ID#: 36706

Session Description:
The physical coupling between atmosphere and ocean helps to drive a myriad of processes, such as surface material transport, air-sea gas flux, and wind-wave interactions. Fundamentally, the interfacial fluxes of energy and mass occur at the molecules-wide boundary between air and water. Outside of nominal open ocean conditions, the fine-scale nature of these dynamics poses a significant empirical challenge and numerically representing the air-sea coupling is not trivial. It is therefore necessary to come to a mechanistic understanding of the processes affecting exchange of mass and energy across the air-sea interface, and advances in both observational and numerical methods are needed. This session invites contributions to better consolidate the role of the ocean-atmosphere coupled system and is focused on expanding the current understanding of the mechanisms driving air-sea fluxes. Submissions on near-surface processes that can modulate the interfacial exchange are encouraged. Presentations of novel techniques, methods, and/or venues for air-sea interaction study are highly encouraged. The Chairs hope that this session facilitates a focused discussion on the physics of air-sea interaction, with input from an array of technical backgrounds and perspectives.
Primary Chair:  David Ortiz-Suslow, University of Miami - RSMAS, Department of Ocean Sciences, Miami, FL, United States
Co-chairs:  Brian Ward, National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG), School of Physics, Galway, Ireland, Kai H Christensen, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway and Nathan Laxague, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Division of Ocean and Climate Physics, Palisades, NY, United States
Moderators:  David Ortiz-Suslow, University of Miami - RSMAS, Department of Ocean Sciences, Miami, FL, United States and Nathan Laxague, University of Miami, RSMAS, Miami, FL, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Kai H Christensen, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway
Index Terms:

4504 Air/sea interactions [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4534 Hydrodynamic modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4568 Turbulence, diffusion, and mixing processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4572 Upper ocean and mixed layer processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Cross-Topics:
  • IS - Ocean Observatories, Instrumentation and Sensing Technologies
  • OM - Ocean Modeling
  • PS - Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Smaller

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The Contribution of the Spume Drops Torn off Wave Crests to the Air-Sea Exchange of Gases at High Wind Speeds (305667)
Edward C Monahan, Allison Staniec and Penny Vlahos, University of Connecticut, Marine Sciences, Groton, CT, United States
Electromagnetic Properties of a Sea Spray Layer Under High Winds (304829)
Magdalena D Anguelova, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States and Michael H Bettenhausen, Naval Research Lab DC, Remote Sensing Division, Washington, DC, United States
A Comparison of Fresh and Saline Spume Droplet Production in High Wind Conditions. (302072)
Sanchit Mehta, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, David G Ortiz-Suslow, University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Miami, FL, United States, Brian K Haus, University of Miami, RSMAS, Miami, FL, United States and Andrew Wyatt Smith, University of Miami, Dept of Ocean Sciences, Miami, FL, United States
The Relative Importance of Gas Exchange via Sea Spray Droplets Determined from Modeling Applied to 19 Distinct Ocean Sub-regions (311303)
Allison Staniec1, Penny Vlahos2 and Edward C Monahan2, (1)University of Connecticut, Groton, CT, United States, (2)University of Connecticut, Marine Sciences, Groton, CT, United States
The Effect of Wave Breaking on Near-surface Turbulence and Air-sea Gas Exchanges (315389)
Shuiqing Li, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China and Dongliang Zhao, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
Uncertainty and reliability of using dropsondes for air-sea flux estimates in tropical cyclones (325827)
David H Richter, University of Notre Dame, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, IN, United States, Rachel Elizabeth Bohac, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States and Daniel P Stern, NRL/UCAR, Monterey, CA, United States
Air-Sea Interaction Measurements and Analyses in CASPER (318739)
Qing Wang, Naval Postgraduate School, Department of Meteorology, Monterey, CA, United States and The CASPER Team

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