The ocean's role in climate and ecosystems involves a rich tapestry of physical and biogeochemical processes. Quantification and simulation of these processes and their interplay is essential to reach a holistic understanding of past and future climate and ecosystem changes. To this end, it is vital that our community continues to build interdisciplinary research strategies.
This session is aimed to foster such strategies through applications of the water mass transformation framework. Water mass transformation has traditionally been used to analyze ocean overturning circulation, subduction and heat transport in both models and from observations. However, recent advances have also allowed for applications of this framework to understand climate variability, ventilation and to combine and understand the interplay between the overturning circulation and origin and faith of biogeochemical tracers. As such, the water mass transformation framework weaves together ocean dynamics, thermodynamics, biogeochemical processes, and interactions with the atmosphere, cryosphere and solid Earth.
We welcome any studies that utilize the water mass transformation framework to further our understanding of the ocean’s role in the climate system. We especially welcome frontier interdisciplinary applications that combine physics with biogeochemistry or analyze climate variability through water mass analyses.
Primary Chair: Sjoerd Groeskamp, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Ocean Systems, Den Burg, Netherlands
Co-chairs: Emily Newsom, University of Oxford, Department of Physics, Oxford, United Kingdom, Daniele Iudicone, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy and Ivana Cerovecki, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, United States
Primary Liaison: Sjoerd Groeskamp, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Ocean Systems, Den Burg, Netherlands
Moderators: Emily Newsom, University of Oxford, Department of Physics, Oxford, United Kingdom and Sjoerd Groeskamp, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Ocean Systems, Den Burg, Netherlands
Student Paper Review Liaisons: Ivana Cerovecki, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, United States and Daniele Iudicone, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy
The Origin and Fate of Subantarctic Mode Water and Antarctic Intermediate Water in the Southern Ocean (640101)
Mr. Zhi Li, PhD, ARC Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Matthew H England, Centre for Marine Science and Innovation, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Sjoerd Groeskamp, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Ocean Systems, Den Burg, Netherlands, Yiyong Luo, Ocean University of China, Physical Oceanography Laboratory/CIMST, Qingdao, China and Ivana Cerovecki, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, United States
The observation-based application of a Regional Thermohaline Inverse Method to diagnose the formation and transformation of Labrador Sea water from 2013-2015 (639248)
Neill Mackay, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom; National Oceanography Center, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Chris Wilson, National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool, United Kingdom, N. Penny Holliday, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom and Jan D Zika, University of New South Wales, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Sydney, NSW, Australia
A framework to estimate water mass formation properties from space (656376)
Roberto Sabia, Telespazio-Vega for European Space Agency, Frascati, Italy, Aqeel Piracha, Barcelona Expert Centre, ICM-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain, Jessica Caughtry, European Space Agency, Frascati, Italy, Marlene Klockmann, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany and Diego Fernandez-Prieto, European Space Research Institute (ESRIN) - European Space Agency (ESA), Frascati, Italy
A Water-Mass Based Approach to Constructing a New Process-Based Vertical Advection/Diffusion Theoretical Model of Ocean Heat Uptake (645535)
Gabriel A. Wolf1, Remi Tailleux2, Antoine Hochet3, David Ferreira1, Till Kuhlbrodt1 and Jonathan M Gregory4, (1)University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, (2)University of Reading, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom, (3)Laboratory for Ocean Physics, Brest, Brest, France, (4)Met Office Hadley Centre and National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
Atlantic ocean heat transport enabled by Indo-Pacific heat uptake and mixing (638888)
Ryan Holmes1, Jan D Zika1, Raffaele M Ferrari2, Andrew F Thompson3, Emily Rose Newsom4 and Matthew H England5, (1)University of New South Wales, Climate Change Research Centre, ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes and School of Mathematics and Statistics, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (2)MIT, Cambridge, United States, (3)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (4)California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Univ New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Rapid water parcel transport across the Kuroshio Extension in the lower thermocline from dissolved oxygen measurements by Seaglider and BGC Argo floats (650247)
Shigeki Hosoda1, Ryuichiro Inoue1, Masami Nonaka2, Hideharu Sasaki3, Yoshikazu Sasai4 and Mizue Hirano Ms1, (1)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, (2)JAMSTEC, Application Laboratory, Yokohama, Japan, (3)JAMSTEC, Yokohama, Japan, (4)Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Research Institute for Global Change (RIGC), Yokohama, Japan
A pressure-invariant Neutral Density variable for the World's Oceans (640122)
Yandong Lang1, Geoff Stanley2, Trevor J McDougall2 and Paul M Barker3, (1)University of New South Wales, School of mathematics and statistics, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (2)University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (3)University of New South Wales, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Sydney, NSW, Australia
The Low-frequency Variability of the Ocean Heat Content in the SCS and Its Related Extreme Subsurface Warm Events (640150)
Dongxiao Wang, Sun Yet-sen University, School of Marine Sciences, Zhuhai, China, Fuan Xiao, Guangzhou University, School of Geographical Sciences, Guangzhou, China, Lili Zeng, SCSIO South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, Qin-Yan Liu, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China and Wen Zhou, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong