PL42A:
Multiscale Variability of Boundary Currents and Their Role in Climate and Ecosystems II


Session ID#: 36794

Session Description:
The global oceanic basins feature energetic boundary currents (BCs) that redistribute water, heat and salt, and exhibit a complex web of physical and biogeochemical processes along their paths. As such, BCs play a major role in regulating the global climate system. Yet monitoring the multi-space and time scales of the energetic dynamic flows of boundary currents can becomplicated. These boundary currents tend to act as barriers to cross-front flow, but variability associated with multiple types of instabilities, and on a range of time and space scales, act to facilitate cross-front flow, stirring, and mixing along their paths, further complicating the study of these currents. This sessionseeks contributions from studies including, but not limited to, the full multi-scale variability of BCs from time and space scales that span subseasonal to multi-decadal and from turbulent tobasin scales; their interaction with marginal seas, frontal processes and air-sea interaction; and their impacts on marine ecosystems. Inaddition, we welcome papers that discuss observational (in situ and remote), analysis, theoretical and model simulations that emphasize achievements in sustained BC monitoring, and so provide guidance for the development of a future effective and efficient monitoring network.
Primary Chair:  Zhaohui Chen, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
Co-chairs:  Janet Sprintall, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, Emma E Heslop, SOCIB, Palma, Spain and Stuart P Bishop, North Carolina State University, Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, Raleigh, NC, United States
Moderators:  Zhaohui Chen, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China and Stuart P Bishop, University of Rhode Island, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Kingston, RI, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Zhaohui Chen, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
Index Terms:

4262 Ocean observing systems [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4512 Currents [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4516 Eastern boundary currents [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4576 Western boundary currents [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Cross-Topics:
  • AI - Air-Sea Interactions
  • IS - Ocean Observatories, Instrumentation and Sensing Technologies
  • OM - Ocean Modeling
  • PO - Physical Oceanography: Other

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Meridional Shift of the Kuroshio-Oyashio Front in the Past 35 Years (307138)
Baolan Wu1, Xiaopei Lin1 and Bo Qiu2, (1)Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China, (2)Univ Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
Mesoscale SST Dynamics in the Kuroshio-Oyashio Extension Region (305371)
Zhao Jing, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China and Ping Chang, Texas A & M Univ, College Station, TX, United States
Surface winds response to sea surface temperature perturbations over the frontal regions: climatology and seasonality (315017)
Jinging He and Xiaopei Lin, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
Satellite Observations of Interannual Wind Variability and Ocean Response in the California Current System (324866)
Thomas Kilpatrick and Shang-Ping Xie, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Decadal variability of the Gulf Stream North Wall: The role of high and low latitude atmospheric forcing (322106)
Christopher Wolfe, Sultan Hameed and Lequan Chi, Stony Brook University, SoMAS, Stony Brook, NY, United States
Evidence of a Fast-Track for Upper Labrador Sea Water at Cape Hatteras, North Carolina (321595)
Mike Muglia1, Magdalena Andres2, John Bane3, Frank Bahr4 and Patterson Taylor1, (1)University of North Carolina Coastal Studies Insitute, Wanchese, NC, United States, (2)WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (3)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, (4)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States

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