AI34B:
Wave Breaking in Ocean-Atmosphere Exchanges II Posters
AI34B:
Wave Breaking in Ocean-Atmosphere Exchanges II Posters
Wave Breaking in Ocean-Atmosphere Exchanges II Posters
Session ID#: 84579
Session Description:
Waves and wave breaking at the surface of the ocean strongly modulate fluxes between the ocean and atmosphere, entraining bubbles, ejecting spray, and exchanging momentum with the turbulent atmospheric and oceanic boundary layers. Entrained bubbles strongly impact gas transfer, while sea spray can be transported into the atmosphere, where it affects the heat, moisture and momentum fluxes, influencing physical and biological processes. Waves and wave breaking also participate in horizontal mass transport, affecting sea ice, currents, upper ocean processes such as Langmuir turbulence as well as the drift of pollutant and plastic. These processes cover a wide range of scales, from micrometric drops and bubbles to large scale wave swell. The development of coupled wave-ocean models requires the development of physics based parameterization that explicitly consider the role of wave variability. This session aims to consolidate our understanding of the role of waves and wave breaking in modulating fluxes at the ocean-atmosphere interface. We welcome contributions on processes that control the mass and momentum exchanges from a variety of approaches, including field work, laboratory experiments and numerical simulations. Presentations on how the understanding of such small-scale processes can be used by remote sensing techniques or represented in parameterizations (to be used in larger scale ocean modeling) is highly encouraged.
Co-Sponsor(s):
- OM - Ocean Modeling
- PS - Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Smaller
Index Terms:
4273 Physical and biogeochemical interactions [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4504 Air/sea interactions [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4560 Surface waves and tides [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4568 Turbulence, diffusion, and mixing processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Primary Chair: Luc Deike, Princeton University, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States
Co-chairs: Nicholas Pizzo, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Ana Beatriz Villas Boas, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States and Fabrice Veron, University of Delaware, School of Marine Science and Policy, Newark, DE, United States
Primary Liaison: Luc Deike, Princeton University, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States
Moderators: Luc Deike, Princeton University, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States and Ana Beatriz Villas Boas, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States
Student Paper Review Liaisons: Nicholas Pizzo, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States and Luc Deike, Princeton University, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
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