PS12A:
Turbulent Mixing of the Ocean Surface Boundary Layer: Observation, Simulation, and Parameterization II

Session ID#: 92526

Session Description:
The turbulent ocean surface boundary layer (OSBL) communicates heat, mass, and momentum between the atmosphere and ocean interior, hosts the majority of oceanic primary productivity, and plays a key role in the evolution of the earth system over seasonal to centennial time scales. Representing variability in OSBL turbulent mixing is an abiding challenge in the modeling of earth systems due to the complexity of turbulent OSBL processes and their interaction with atmospheric turbulence, ocean interior mixing, surface waves, submesoscale processes, and sea ice.

This session invites contributions from both observational, numerical, and theoretical process studies as well as parameterization development work relating to OSBL turbulent mixing. We are interested in all processes that might affect OSBL turbulent mixing and the evolution of the OSBL, including wind-driven mixing, convection, and wave-driven turbulence --- as well as frontal instabilities and submesoscale baroclinic processes emerging from the breakdown of larger-scale currents.

The focus of this oral sub-session is on surface waves and wave-driven turbulent mixing in the OSBL.

Co-Sponsor(s):
  • AI - Air-Sea Interactions
  • OB - Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry
  • OM - Ocean Modeling
Index Terms:

1622 Earth system modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4504 Air/sea interactions [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4568 Turbulence, diffusion, and mixing processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4572 Upper ocean and mixed layer processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Primary Chair:  Ivan B. Savelyev, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, United States
Co-chairs:  Gregory LeClaire Wagner, MIT, Cambridge, United States, Leah Johnson, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States and Qing Li, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, United States; Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ivan B. Savelyev, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, United States
Moderators:  Ivan B. Savelyev, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, United States and Qing Li, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, United States
Student Paper Review Liaisons:  Ivan B. Savelyev, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, United States and Leah Johnson, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

PS12A-01
Multi-vehicle coordinated measurements of meteorology, surface waves, and upper ocean turbulence in the Icelandic Basin (654288)
Sophia Merrifield, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States, Louis C St. Laurent, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, United States, Justin Shapiro, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, United States, Harper L Simmons, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States and Eric Terrill, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States
PS12A-02
Observations of coherent structures in the mixed layer (643894)
Ewa Jarosz, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Ocean Sciences, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, Hemantha W Wijesekera, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Ocean Sciences, Stennis Space Center, United States and David W Wang, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, United States
PS12A-03
Parameterization of gas transfer velocity at a gas-liquid interface in the presence of counter-rotating roller vortices, such as Langmuir Circulation. (657433)
Katherine Adler, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States, Edwin A Cowen, Cornell University, Ithaca, United States and Veronica Smith, Roux Associates, Inc., Logan Township, NJ, United States
PS12A-04
Turbulence, mixing, and nutrient fluxes in kelp farms (658101)
Marcelo Chamecki1, Yan Chao2 and James C. McWilliams1, (1)University of California, Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States
PS12A-05
Turbulence Reduction and the Langmuir Circulation (636220)
Yalin Fan1, Zhitao Yu2, Ivan B. Savelyev3, Peter P Sullivan4, Junhong Liang5, Tracy Haack6, Eric Terrill7, Tony de Paolo7 and Kipp Kipp Shearman8, (1)Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, United States, (2)US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (3)U. S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, United States, (4)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (5)Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, United States, (6)Naval Research Laboratory, Marine Meteorology Division, Monterey, CA, United States, (7)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (8)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States
PS12A-06
Nonlocal Fluxes in Second Moment Closures of Langmuir Turbulence and Convection (653895)
Ramsey R Harcourt, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, Eric A. D'Asaro, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, United States, Andrey Y. Shcherbina, Applied Physics Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States and Zhihua Zheng, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, College Park, United States
PS12A-07
On the Physical Mechanisms of the Two-Way Coupling between a Surface Wave Field and a Circulation Consisting of a Roll and Streak (642836)
Nobuhiro Suzuki, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Institute of Coastal Research, Geesthacht, Germany and Yasushi Fujiwara, Kyoto University, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto, Japan
PS12A-08
Diffusion of surface gravity waves by submesoscale turbulence at the sea surface (645999)
William R Young, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States and Bia Villas Boas, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States
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