PS42B:
Observing the Ocean Surface Topography at High Resolution: Opportunities and Challenges for the Future SWOT Mission I

Session ID#: 92542

Session Description:
The future altimetry international Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission to be launched in 2021 will make high-resolution 2D observations of sea-surface height (SSH) using SAR radar interferometry techniques at an unprecedented resolution of 15-40 km wavelength, depending on sea state conditions. These observations, with about one order of magnitude higher resolution than current altimetry products, will provide new opportunities to study the fine scale oceanic dynamics as well as internal tides and internal waves, and their role in connecting the interior of the ocean to the upper layer. The SWOT mission will be divided in two phases on different orbits. The first “fast sampling phase” is dedicated to mission calibration and science validation and will have a reduced spatial coverage but an enhanced temporal resolution (daily, and twice a day over track crossovers). The second phase (the nominal one) will map the entire earth up to 77.6° latitude, sampling a given location 2-6 times every 21 days.  This session will explore recent studies in understanding how fine scale SSH dynamics are linked to the sinks, sources and stirring of kinetic energy in the ocean, and to their related ecological and biogeochemical processes. The session encourages modeling and assimilation approaches, as well as studies of the in-situ or airborne experimental strategies to be deployed to observe these small-scale, rapidly evolving dynamics during both the fast sampling and the nominal phases.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • IS - Ocean Observatories, Instrumentation and Sensing Technologies
  • PI - Physical-Biological Interactions
  • PL - Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Larger
Index Terms:

4520 Eddies and mesoscale processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4556 Sea level: variations and mean [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4560 Surface waves and tides [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4594 Instruments and techniques [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Primary Chair:  Rosemary Morrow, LEGOS CNRS/CNES/IRD/University Toulouse III, Toulouse, France
Co-chairs:  Lee-Lueng Fu, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, J. Thomas Farrar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Department of Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, United States and Francesco d'Ovidio, LOCEAN, Paris, France
Primary Liaison:  Rosemary Morrow, LEGOS CNRS/CNES/IRD/University Toulouse III, Toulouse, France
Moderators:  Lee-Lueng Fu, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States and Rosemary Morrow, CNES French National Center for Space Studies, Toulouse Cedex 09, France
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Lee-Lueng Fu, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

PS42B-01
Submesoscale to Mesoscale Variability in the California Current: Implications for SWOT (656284)
Kyla Drushka, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, Luc Rainville, University of Washington, Seattle, United States and Dimitris Menemenlis, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
PS42B-02
Finescale horizontal and vertical currents from in-situ observations in preparation for SWOT altimeter mission (650208)
Ananda Pascual1, Simon Ruiz1, Bàrbara Barceló-Llull2, Antonio Sanchez-Roman1, Evan Mason3, Eugenio Cutolo4, Daniel R Tarry1, Helena Antich1, Laura Gomez-Navarro1,5, Said Ouala6, Baptiste Mourre7, Yannice Faugere8, Ronan Fablet6, Joaquin Tintore7,9, Amala Mahadevan10 and Francesco d'Ovidio11, (1)IMEDEA(CSIC-UIB), Esporles, Spain, (2)Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (3)Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, United States, (4)IMT ATLANTIQUE, Brest, France, (5)Institut des Géosciences de l'Environnement, CNRS/Univ. Grenoble Alpes/G-INP/IRD, Grenoble, France, (6)IMT Atlantique, France, (7)Balearic Islands Coastal Observing and Forecasting System (SOCIB), Palma de Mallorca, Spain, (8)CLS Collecte Localisation Satellites, Ramonville Saint-Agne, France, (9)Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA), Esporles, Spain, (10)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (11)LOCEAN, Paris, France
PS42B-03
Global observational constraints on surface ocean kinetic energy (654227)
Shane Elipot, University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, Miami, FL, United States, Jonathan M Lilly, Theiss Research, La Jolla, CA, United States, Rick Lumpkin, NOAA/AOML, Miami, United States and Edward D. Zaron, Portland State University, Portland, OR, United States
PS42B-04
What will be the finest resolved scale of SWOT SSH data under different dynamical conditions ? (650536)
Laura Gomez-Navarro1,2, Emmanuel Cosme2, Julien Lesommer2, Nicolas Papadakis3, Jean-Marc. Molines2, Ananda Pascual1, Brian K Arbic4, Adekunle O. Ajayi2, Aurélie Albert2, Dimitris Menemenlis5, Jay F Shriver6, James G Richman7, Anna Savage8 and Ji Ye4, (1)IMEDEA(CSIC-UIB), Esporles, Spain, (2)Institut des Géosciences de l'Environnement, CNRS/Univ. Grenoble Alpes/G-INP/IRD, Grenoble, France, (3)Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, (4)University of Michigan, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (6)Naval Research Laboratory, Ocean Sciences Division, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (7)Florida State University, COAPS, Tallahassee, FL, United States, (8)Running Tide, Portland, United States
PS42B-05
Submesoscale Eddy Vertical Correlations and Dynamical Constraints from High-Resolution Numerical Simulations (636145)
Joseph Matthew D'Addezio, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Ocean Dynamics and Prediction, Stennis Space Center, United States, Gregg A. Jacobs, US Naval Research Laboratory, Ocean Sciences Division, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, Max Yaremchuk, Naval Research Lab, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States and Innocent Souopgui, The University of New Orleans, New Orleans, United States
PS42B-06
Importance of damping in comparison of internal tides in several global hydrodynamical models with altimetry (651707)
Joseph K Ansong1, Brian K Arbic2, Dimitris Menemenlis3, Alan J Wallcraft4, Romain Bourdalle-Badie5, Jerome Chanut6, Frederic Briol7, Michael Schindelegger8, Richard Ray9, Eric Chassignet10, Robert Hallberg11, Loren Carrère12, Gérald Dibarboure13, Nicolas Picot13, Maarten C Buijsman14, James G Richman15, Jay F Shriver16, Christopher N Hill17, Matthew R Mazloff18, Rui M Ponte19, Ariane KOCH-Larrouy20, Florent Lyard20 and An T Nguyen21, (1)University of Ghana, Department of Mathematics, Accra, Ghana, (2)University of Michigan, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (4)Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States, (5)Mercator Ocean international, Ramonville Saint-Agne, France, (6)Mercator Ocean International, Ramonville Saint-Agne, France, (7)Collecte Localisation Satellites, Ramonville-Saint-Agne, France, (8)University of Bonn, Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation, Bonn, Germany, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Geodesy & Geophysics Lab, Greenbelt, United States, (10)Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Florida State University, Tallahassee, United States, (11)NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, (12)CLS, Ramonville Saint-Agne, France, (13)CNES French National Center for Space Studies, Toulouse, France, (14)University of Southern Mississippi, Division of Marine Science, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (15)Naval Research Lab Stennis Space Center, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (16)Naval Research Laboratory, Ocean Sciences Division, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (17)MIT, Cambridge, United States, (18)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, United States, (19)Verisk Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Lexington, United States, (20)LEGOS, Toulouse, France, (21)University of Texas at Austin, Institute of Computational Engineering and Sciences, Austin, TX, United States
PS42B-07
Low-mode internal tides and small scale surface dynamics in the SWOT cal/val region (652677)
Anna Savage1, Amy Frances Waterhouse2, Jennifer A MacKinnon3, Jonathan D Nash4, Samuel Maurice Kelly5, Zhongxiang Zhao6, Justin Shapiro7, Drew J. Lucas8, Louis St Laurent7, Matthias J Lankhorst9 and Uwe Send8, (1)Running Tide, Portland, United States, (2)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (3)UC San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (4)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (5)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sommerville, United States, (6)University of Washington, (7)Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, United States, (8)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (9)UCSD, La Jolla, CA, United States
PS42B-08
The Importance of Remote Forcing for Regional Modeling of Internal Waves (652586)
Matthew R Mazloff1, Bruce D Cornuelle1, Prof. Sarah T Gille, PhD2 and Jinbo Wang3, (1)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (2)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
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