PS14B:
Turbulent Mixing of the Ocean Surface Boundary Layer: Observation, Simulation, and Parameterization V Posters

Session ID#: 92534

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 poster sub-session is on observation and parameterization of 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 Gregory LeClaire Wagner, MIT, Cambridge, United States
Student Paper Review Liaisons:  Leah Johnson, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, United States and Ivan B. Savelyev, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
PS14B-2834
Measurements of Concurrent Turbulent Mixing and Velocity Shear in the Ocean Surface Boundary Layer with Gliders (649084)
Jan-Torben Witte, University of Southampton, Ocean and Earth Science, Southampton, United Kingdom
 
PS14B-2835
Wind limits on rain layers and diurnal warm layers (649291)
Elizabeth Jennifer Thompson, NOAA PSL, Physical Sciences Lab, Boulder, United States, Jim Moum, Oregon State Univ, Corvallis, OR, United States, Chris W Fairall, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States and Steven A Rutledge, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States
 
PS14B-2836
Barrier Layer in the Indian Ocean during Central Pacific and Eastern Pacific El Niños: Observations and Mechanism (657990)
Lili Zeng, SCSIO South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, Xiaolin Zhang, University of Colorado, Boulder, United States and Xuemeng Tian, Ocean University of China, China
 
PS14B-2837
Turbulent Diurnal Jets as Observed by an Ocean Microstructure Glider. (651167)
Matthew Toberman1, Mark E Inall1 and Matthew R Palmer2, (1)Scottish Association for Marine Science, Oban, United Kingdom, (2)National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool, United Kingdom
 
PS14B-2839
Overlapping boundary layers in coastal oceans (647477)
Chao Yan, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, James C McWilliams, University of California in Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States and Marcelo Chamecki, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
PS14B-2840
Diffusion of Pollutants in Wind-Induced Oceanic Surface Turbulence (649560)
BongGwan Kim1, Yang-Ki Cho1 and Yign Noh2, (1)Seoul National University, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul, South Korea, (2)Yonsei University, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seoul, ARRAY(0xd064f68), South Korea
 
PS14B-2841
Anisotropic Turbulence and Subsurface Heat Fluxes in the Diurnal Warm Layer (641166)
Kenneth Hughes, Oregon State University, Corvallis, United States, Jim Moum, Oregon State University, College of Earth Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, Corvalis, OR, United States and Emily L Shroyer, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States
 
PS14B-2842
Mixed Layer Deepening due to Wind-Induced Shear-Driven Turbulence and Scaling of the Deepening Rate in the Stratified Ocean (639114)
Yusuke Ushijima, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan and Yutaka Yoshikawa, Kyoto University Rigakubu, Kyoto, Japan
 
PS14B-2843
Evaluating Monin-Obukhov Scaling for the Turbulent Ocean Surface Layer (646683)
Zhihua Zheng, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, College Park, United States, Ramsey R Harcourt, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, United States and Eric A D'Asaro, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
 
PS14B-2844
Vertical turbulent cooling of the mixed layer in the Atlantic ITCZ and trade wind regions (639739)
Gregory R Foltz1, Rebecca Marie Hummels2, Marcus Dengler2, Renellys C Perez3 and Moacyr Araujo4, (1)Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Miami, FL, United States, (2)GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany, (3)UM/CIMAS, Miami, United States, (4)DOCEAN, Department of Oceanography, UFPE, Recife, Brazil
 
PS14B-2845
On the variability of Arabian Sea mixing and its energetics (641695)
Shikha Singh1, Vinu Valsala2, A.G. Prajeesh2 and Sridhar Balasubramanian3, (1)Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Development of Skilled Manpower in Earth System Sciences, Pune, India, (2)Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India, (3)Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IDP in Climate Studies, Mumbai, India
 
PS14B-2846
Uncertainty quantification and optimization of an eddy diffusivity, mass flux model for turbulent vertical mixing in the ocean surface boundary layer (657217)
Gregory LeClaire Wagner1, Andre Souza2 and Raffaele M Ferrari1, (1)MIT, Cambridge, United States, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
 
PS14B-2847
On the spatial and temporal discretization of vertical diffusion in the turbulent planetary boundary layer (649976)
Florian Lemarié, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Inria, Grenoble, France
 
PS14B-2848
Vertical mixing parameterization for the ocean surface boundary layer based on assumed distribution higher order closure (656910)
Amrapalli Garanaik1, Rachel Robey2, Luke Van Roekel3 and Qing Li3, (1)Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States
 
PS14B-2849
A general turbulence velocity scale for transport of buoyant materials in the oceanic mixed layer (658084)
Tomas Chor, University of Maryland, College Park, United States and Marcelo Chamecki, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
PS14B-2850
Towards super-parameterization of ocean surface boundary layer turbulent mixing in MPAS-Ocean (651641)
Qing Li, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Luke Van Roekel, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States
 
PS14B-2851
Turbulence and Convection in Ocean and Atmospheric Models:The Unified Eddy-Diffusivity/Mass-Flux (EDMF) Approach (Invited) (653285)
Joao Teixeira, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
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