PL14B:
Ocean Transport and Eddy Energy IV Posters
Session ID#: 84369
Session Description:
Ocean mesoscale processes play a significant role in the energy cycle of the ocean as both a reservoir of energy and a mechanism for energy exchange. This includes energy exchanges between the ocean and atmosphere, across spatial scales, and between reservoirs of potential and kinetic energy within the ocean. The eddy energy cycle has a significant impact on the transport of momentum, heat, carbon, and nutrients throughout the ocean.
In this session, we invite contributions from observational, theoretical, and modeling studies on the role of mesoscale processes in the ocean energy cycle. Specifically, we are interested in
(i) Novel diagnostics of eddy sources, sinks and fluxes of momentum, buoyancy, and energy;
(ii) Understanding of mesoscale eddy energy and its role in the ocean circulation, and the transport of physical and biogeochemical tracers;
(iii) Parameterizations of eddy momentum and buoyancy fluxes in numerical models and their link to the energy budget.
Co-Sponsor(s):
Primary Chair: Laure Zanna, University of Oxford, Dept of Physics, Oxford, United Kingdom
Co-chairs: Alistair Adcroft, Princeton University, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, Sylvia T Cole, WHOI, Woods Hole, United States and Ian Grooms, University of Colorado at Boulder, Applied Mathematics, Boulder, United States
Primary Liaison: Laure Zanna, University of Oxford, Dept of Physics, Oxford, United Kingdom
Moderators: Alistair Adcroft, Princeton University, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton, NJ, United States and Sylvia T Cole, WHOI, Woods Hole, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison: Laure Zanna, University of Oxford, Dept of Physics, Oxford, United Kingdom
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Vertical distribution of physical properties of the semi-permanent structure of Campache Bay (656616)
Sebastian Cisneros1, Miguel Costa Tenreiro2 and Enric Pallas Sanz2, (1)CICESE, Physical Oceanography, Ensenada, BJ, Mexico, (2)Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada, Physical Oceanography, Ensenada, BJ, Mexico
Instabilities and Multiscale Interactions Underlying the Loop Current Eddy Shedding in the Gulf of Mexico (605563)
Yang Yang1,2, Robert H Weisberg3, Yonggang Liu3 and X. San Liang2, (1)University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, St. Petersburg, FL, United States, (2)Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, School of Marine Sciences, Nanjing, China, (3)University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, St. Petersburg, United States
Glider Observations of the Loop Current and LC Eddy in the western Gulf of Mexico: comparison of buoyancy mixing and relationships with oxygen variability (654911)
Mr. Sakib Mahmud, PhD1, Steven Francis DiMarco1,2 and Anthony Knap1, (1)Texas A&M University, Geochemical and Environmental Research Group (GERG), College Station, United States, (2)Texas A&M University, Department of Oceanography, College Station, United States
Recurrent Oceanic Circulation Patterns in the Gulf of Mexico (652673)
Erick Raul Olvera-Prado1, Jorge Zavala-Hidalgo2, Oscar Calderon-Bustamante3, Luis E Moreles-Vazquez4 and Raúl González-Santamaría1, (1)National Autonomous University of Mexico, Center of Atmospheric Sciences, Mexico City, DF, Mexico, (2)Centro de Ciencias de la Atmosfera, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Grupo de Interacción Océano-Atmósfera, Mexico City, DF, Mexico, (3)Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate Change, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, DF, Mexico, (4)National Autonomous University of Mexico, Institute of Marine Sciences and Limnology, Mexico City, DF, Mexico
'Lofoten Vortex Regeneration Through Vertical Alignment' (650461)
Marta Trodahl, University of Oslo, Geosciences, Oslo, Norway, Pål Erik Isachsen, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Jonathan M Lilly, Theiss Research, La Jolla, CA, United States, Johan Nilsson, Stockholm University, Department of meteorology, Stockholm, Sweden and Nils Melsom Kristiansen, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Ocean and Ice, Oslo, Norway
Kinetic energy transfers between mesoscale and submesoscale motions (643412)
Alberto Naveira Garabato1, Xiaolong Yu2, Kurt L Polzin3, Eleanor Frajka-Williams4, Stephen Griffies5 and Christian E. Buckingham1, (1)Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Département de Physique, Brest, France, (2)IFREMER, Laboratoire d’Océanographie Physique et Spatiale, Brest, France, (3)WHOI, Woods Hole, United States, (4)National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom, (5)Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States
Langmuir and mesoscale and submesoscale and bears, oh my! Assessing process impacts on climate (657429)
Baylor Fox-Kemper, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, United States, Steven C Clemens, Brown University, Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, Leah Johnson, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, Qing Li, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, Arin Nelson, University of Colorado at Boulder, Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, Patrick Orenstein, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States and Brodie Pearson, Brown University, Geological Sciences, Providence, RI, United States
On Energy Cascades in General Flows (637533)
William K Dewar1, Quentin Jamet1, Adekunle O. Ajayi2, Andrew M Hogg3, Thierry Penduff4 and Julien Lesommer4, (1)Florida State University, Tallahassee, United States, (2)LGGE Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement, St Martins d'here, France, (3)Australian National University and ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, ACT, Australia, (4)Institut des Géosciences de l'Environnement, CNRS/Univ. Grenoble Alpes/G-INP/IRD, Grenoble, France
A Simple Two Dimensional Dynamical System for Eddy Saturation (650819)
James Roland Maddison, University of Edinburgh, School of Mathematics, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, David Philip Marshall, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom and Julian Mak, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong
A diagnosis of anisotropic eddy diffusion from a high-resolution global ocean model (636934)
Scott Bachman, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics, Boulder, CO, United States, Baylor Fox-Kemper, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, United States and Frank Bryan, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics, Boulder, United States
Measuring Eddy Driven Transport in a Zonally Inhomogeneous Flow (644422)
Dhruv Balwada, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, United States, K. Shafer Smith, New York University, CAOS, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, United States and Ryan Abernathey, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States
