OM43A:
Ocean Model Coupling (Air-Ocean, Ice-Ocean, Wave-Ocean) on Subseasonal Through Interannual Timescales to Support the National Earth System Prediction Capability II


Session ID#: 37814

Session Description:
Important decisions in sectors ranging from food security and public health, emergency management and national security rely on forecast information globally and at time scales beyond traditional weather limits. Prediction at sub-seasonal to seasonal time scales and beyond require full coupling between the components of the physical earth system. National Earth System Prediction Capability (National ESPC) is a partnership of five Federal agencies collaborating to address research and operational issues, especially coordinated transitions or research to operational or application use, across time scales ranging from synoptic to decadal. The partnership’s focus is on the subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) and intraseasonal to interannual (ISI) time range for which both initial conditions and boundary forcings drive the state of the coupled air-ocean-land-ice environment. This session is looking for papers describing improvements to ocean coupling (air-ocean, ice-ocean, wave-ocean) technologies and effective data assimilation for coupled systems, both for weather prediction to support improved S2S/ISI prediction as well as internally consistent ocean and atmosphere modeling. Technologies should improve representation of important coupled phenomena such as MJO, PDO, ENSO, IOD and others.
Primary Chair:  Jessie C Carman, NOAA Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States
Co-Chair:  David McCarren, Oceanographer of the Navy, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Moderators:  Jessie C Carman, NOAA Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States and Scott A Sandgathe, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  David McCarren, Oceanographer of the Navy, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Index Terms:

4504 Air/sea interactions [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:
  • AI - Air-Sea Interactions
  • HE - High Latitude Environments
  • PL - Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Larger
  • PS - Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Smaller

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Coupled high-resolution ocean-ice and ocean-atmosphere-ice reanalyses at the Naval Research Laboratory (304070)
James G Richman, Florida State University, COAPS, Tallahassee, FL, United States, Jay F Shriver, Naval Research Laboratory, Ocean Sciences Division, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, E. Joseph Metzger, Naval Research Lab Stennis Space Center, Stennis Space Center, United States, Patrick J Hogan, John C. Stennis Space Center, Oceanography, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States and Ole Martin Smedstad, John C. Stennis Space Center, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States
Ocean Coupling in the NCEP Unified Global Coupled System (315285)
Jiande Wang, IMSG AND EMC/NCEP/NOAA, College Park, MD, United States
Subseasonal prediction experiment using an atmosphere–ocean coupled data assimilation system (304627)
Yuhei Takaya1, Yosuke Fujii2, Toshiyuki Ishibashi3 and Chiaki Kobayashi2, (1)Meteorological Research Institute, Department of Atmosphere, Ocean, and Earth System Modeling Research, Ibaraki, Japan, (2)Meteorological Research Institute, Ibaraki, Japan, (3)Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan
High Resolution Coupled Lake-Ice Modeling of Lakes Erie, Michigan, and Huron (313493)
James Andrew Kessler1, Ayumi Fujisaki-Manome2, Eric J Anderson3, Gregory Lang4, Jia Wang1 and Philip Chu5, (1)NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Ann Arbor, United States, (2)Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)NOAA, Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (4)Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (5)NOAA, United States
On the Importance of Coupling for Modeling and Prediction of the Arctic System (325738)
Wieslaw Maslowski1, Robert Osinski2, Samy Kamal1, Younjoo Lee1, Andrew Roberts3, John J Cassano4, Mark W Seefeldt5, Bart Nijssen6 and Diana R Gergel6, (1)Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, United States, (2)Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland, (3)Lost Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (4)Univ Colorado, Boulder, United States, (5)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
Seasonal Prediction Experiments Suggest Re-emergence of Subsurface Ocean Temperature Anomalies Impact Significantly on North Atlantic Winter Climate (316517)
Bablu Sinha1, Jeremy P Grist1, Helene Hewitt2, Patrick Hyder3, Aurélie Duchez1, Craig MacLachlan4, Adrian New1, Simon A Josey1, Joel Hirschi1 and Adam Blaker5, (1)National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom, (2)Met Office Hadley center for Climate Change, Exeter, United Kingdom, (3)Met. Office, Exeter, United Kingdom, (4)Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, United Kingdom, (5)National Oceanography Centre, Marine Systems Modelling, Southampton, United Kingdom

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