HE33A:
The Role of Small-Scale Processes in the Dynamics of the Changing Arctic Ocean II


Session ID#: 37078

Session Description:
The Arctic Ocean and sea ice are undergoing marked changes under continued global warming. Observations indicate that Arctic Ocean circulation, stratification, freshwater, and heat content have been changing in response to atmospheric winds, reduced sea ice cover, increased solar warming, changing freshwater sources, and advection of heat from the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Ocean heat and salt transport by flows at all scales are contributing to sea-ice losses, the distribution and storage of freshwater, and associated feedbacks across the Arctic. Basin-scale changes are profoundly affected by small-scale ocean processes such as mesoscale and submesoscale turbulence, wave breaking and vertical mixing. This session invites submissions that explore the influence of small-scale processes on sea ice and large-scale Arctic Ocean dynamics and thermodynamics. We welcome theoretical, observational, and modeling studies on eddies, waves, mixing and stirring, and their impact on basin-scale Arctic variability and change.
Primary Chair:  Georgy Manucharyan, California Institute of Technology, Environmental Sciences and Engeiering, Pasadena, CA, United States
Co-Chair:  Mary-Louise Timmermans, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
Moderators:  Georgy Manucharyan, California Institute of Technology, Environmental Sciences and Engeiering, Pasadena, CA, United States and Mary-Louise Timmermans, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Georgy Manucharyan, California Institute of Technology, Environmental Sciences and Engeiering, Pasadena, CA, United States
Index Terms:

4520 Eddies and mesoscale processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4532 General circulation [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4540 Ice mechanics and air/sea/ice exchange processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4572 Upper ocean and mixed layer processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Cross-Topics:
  • OM - Ocean Modeling
  • PC - Past, Present and Future Climate
  • PL - Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Larger
  • PS - Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Smaller

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

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