AI43B:
Turbulent Air-Sea Fluxes: Observations and Modeling IV


Session ID#: 36718

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 Kai H Christensen, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Nathan Laxague, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Division of Ocean and Climate Physics, Palisades, NY, United States
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:

Particle Image Velocimetry in Oceanic Flows: Effects of Optical Turbulence and Density Gradients (312476)
Silvia Matt, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, Gero Nootz, NRC Research Associate at Naval Research Laboratory, Ocean Sciences Branch, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, Samuel Hellman, Dantec Dynamics Inc., Holtsville, NY, United States and Weilin Hou, Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States
Wave-breaking Turbulence at a River Inlet (304525)
Seth Zippel and Jim Thomson, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
Understanding Wave Shoaling Impact on the Nearshore Wind-Wave Momentum Flux Based on High-Fidelity Numerical Simulations (307408)
Xuanting Hao, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States and Lian Shen, St Anth Falls Hyd Lab, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Fine Scale structure of the Airflow above Waves (323437)
Marc P Buckley1, Jochen Horstmann2, Jeff R Carpenter1 and Fabrice Veron3, (1)Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Institute of Coastal Research, Geesthacht, Germany, (2)Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research, Geesthacht, Germany, (3)University of Delaware, School of Marine Science and Policy, Newark, DE, United States
Vertical profiles of the wave-coherent airflow over ocean surface waves (324075)
Laurent Grare, Luc Lenain and Wallace Kendall Melville, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Eddy-Correlation Fluxes Measurements Using The OCARINA Autonomous Platform During The BBWAVES Cruises. (312802)
Louis Marie1, Marie-Noelle Bouin2, Peter Sutherland1, Fabrice Ardhuin3, Denis Bourras4, Bertrand Chapron1 and Jean-Luc Redelsperger5, (1)IFREMER, Laboratoire d'Oceanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS), Brest, France, (2)Meteo France, Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques, Brest, France, (3)CNRS, Laboratoire d'Oceanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS), Paris Cedex 16, France, (4)CNRS, Institut Méditerranéen d'Océanologie (MIO), Marseille, France, (5)CNRS, Laboratoire d'Oceanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS), Brest, France

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