PL44C:
Turbulent Pathways and Deep-Ocean Ventilation III Posters

Session ID#: 85293

Session Description:
There has been rapid progress in our understanding of how the deep and abyssal ocean communicates with mid-depth waters and the thermocline through turbulent processes and through southern polar dynamics. This session aims at bringing together studies that focus on the central role of turbulent processes in maintaining the ocean circulation and global tracer budgets, and thereby in the climate system. The key aim  is to demonstrate the controlling connections of processes to the "big picture" circulation and tracer budgets, and not to focus exclusively on process studies or model-data analysis. Southern Ocean or Arctic dynamics, deep ocean diapycnal mixing, and boundary turbulence are just some of the processes of relevance which should be considered. Theoretical, observational and computational approaches are welcome and hybrid studies combining these approaches are particularly encouraged.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • OM - Ocean Modeling
  • PC - Past, Present and Future Climate
  • PS - Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Smaller
Index Terms:

4532 General circulation [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4562 Topographic/bathymetric interactions [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4568 Turbulence, diffusion, and mixing processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4599 General or miscellaneous [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Primary Chair:  Prof. Ali Mashayek, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Co-chairs:  Lynne D Talley, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, United States, Alberto Naveira Garabato, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom and Colm-cille Patrick Caulfield, University of Cambridge, ICCS/DAMTP, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Prof. Ali Mashayek, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Moderators:  Prof. Ali Mashayek, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom and Lynne D Talley, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, United States
Student Paper Review Liaisons:  Prof. Ali Mashayek, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom and Lynne D Talley, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
PL44C-2793
Transition to Turbulence in Flow over Rough Topography in the Southern Ocean (Invited) (653539)
Lois Baker and Prof. Ali Mashayek, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
 
PL44C-2794
Transport and Mixing from Observed Tracer Fields Structuration by Mid-depth Zonal Jets in the Tropical Pacific Ocean. (647626)
Audrey Delpech1, Sophie E Cravatte2, Frederic Marin2, Yves Morel1, Claire Menesguen3 and Elodie Kestenare1, (1)Laboratoire d’Etudes Géophysiques et d’Océanographie Spatiale, LEGOS – UMR 5566 CNES-CNRS-IRD-UPS, Toulouse, France, (2)LEGOS, Université de Toulouse, (IRD, CNES, CNRS, UPS), Toulouse, France, (3)Laboratoire d'Océanographie Physique et Spatiales, LOPS – UMR 6523 Ifremer-CNRS-IRD-UBO, Brest, France
 
PL44C-2795
Abyssal Stratification Decrease in the Southwest Pacific Basin: Implications for Heat Fluxes and Internal Tidal Generation (648351)
Helen Zhang1, Caitlin B Whalen1, Nirnimesh Kumar2 and Sarah G Purkey3, (1)Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)University of Washington, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States, (3)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, San Diego, United States
 
PL44C-2796
Deep Argo Quantifies Bottom Water Warming Rates in the Southwest Pacific Basin (643737)
Gregory C Johnson1, Sarah G Purkey2, Nathalie V Zilberman3 and Dean H Roemmich2, (1)NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)Scripps Institution of Oceanography UCSD, La Jolla, CA, United States, (3)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States
 
PL44C-2797
Hydraulics and mixing in the deep branch of the Indonesian Throughflow (649025)
Shuwen Tan1, Lawrence J Pratt2, Dongliang Yuan3 and Corry Corvianawatie1, (1)Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China, (2)WHOI, Woods Hole, United States, (3)Institute of Oceanology, CAS, CAS Key Lab of Ocean Circulation and Waves, Qingdao, China
 
PL44C-2800
Abyssal Mixing in the Equatorial Pacific from Realistic Simulations (637115)
Bertrand Delorme, Stanford University, Earth System Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States and Leif N Thomas, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
 
PL44C-2802
Near-Boundary Turbulent Dissipation, Suspended Particle Dispersal, and Stratified Turbulent Layers: a Comparison of Two Eastern Pacific Submarine Canyons (654255)
Erika E McPhee-Shaw, Western Washington University, Department of Environmental Sciences, Bellingham, WA, United States, Amy Frances Waterhouse, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, Eric L Kunze, NorthWest Research Associates, Seattle, United States, James B Girton, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States and Jingping Xu, Southern University of Science and Technology, Department of Ocean Science and Engineering, Shenzhen, China
 
PL44C-2803
Long-term observations of the variability of abyssal plain currents from Ocean Networks Canada’s seafloor observatory. (644852)
Steven F Mihaly, University of Victoria, Ocean Networks Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada, Manman Wang, Ocean Networks Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada and Richard Thomson, Inst Ocean Sciences, Sidney, BC, Canada
 
PL44C-2806
Impact of surface wind and buoyancy forcing on the energetics and transport in a rotating wind-forced horizontal convection model of a reentrant channel (652801)
Varvara Zemskova, University of Toronto, Physics, Toronto, ON, Canada, Brian L White, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States and Alberto D Scotti, Arizona State University, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, United States
 
PL44C-2809
The Impact of Eddy Advection and Diffusion on Passive Tracer Transport in a Global Ocean Model (656753)
Asher Riaz, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia, Nathaniel L. Bindoff, Univ Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia, Peter G Strutton, University of Tasmania, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Hobart, TAS, Australia and Simon Wotherspoon, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
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