PS21A:
Vertical Transport: Pathways from the Surface to the Interior I
Session ID#: 92558
Session Description:
The vertical transport of properties, including carbon, oxygen, and heat, is crucial for the production and export of organic carbon, ventilating the subsurface ocean, and modulating ocean-atmosphere exchange. However, vertical transport is poorly constrained observationally, and a challenge for models because vertical velocity is highly sensitive to small-scale processes and model resolution. We will discuss both physical and biological mechanisms for vertical transport on scales ranging from the mesoscale to smaller scales, and including processes affected by surface forcing, seasonality of the mixed-layer, restratification, advection, subduction, mixing, sinking and topography. We will address the underlying dynamics and kinematics for vertical transport of water and properties using multi-platform observations, modeling and theory, while exploring three-dimensional Lagrangian pathways and their spatial and temporal scales of coherence. The effects of such transport on the biological production and export of organic matter is of interest, as also, the large-scale and long-term implications for exchange between the upper ocean and interior.
Co-Sponsor(s):
Primary Chair: Dhruv Balwada, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, United States
Co-chairs: Amala Mahadevan, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Julius Johannes Marian Busecke, Princeton University, Department of Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States and Daniel L Rudnick, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Primary Liaison: Daniel L Rudnick, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Moderators: Dhruv Balwada, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States and Amala Mahadevan, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison: Dhruv Balwada, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Estimating Kinematic Quantities of Submesoscale Structures Along Mesoscale Fronts Using Large Drifter Data Sets (643780)
John Lodise1, Tamay Ozgokmen2, Poulain Pierre-Marie3, Mohamed Iskandarani4, Rafael Carvalho Gonçalves5, Edward H Ryan1 and Cedric Guigand1, (1)University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Miami, FL, United States, (2)Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, United States, (3)Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation, La Spezia, Italy, (4)University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric and Earth Science, Miami, United States, (5)Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Miami, FL, United States
3D Lagrangian pathways in the Alboran Sea (647104)
Helga Huntley, University of Delaware, Newark, United States, A. D. Kirwan Jr, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, Baptiste Mourre, Balearic Islands Coastal Observing and Forecasting System (SOCIB), Palma de Mallorca, Spain and Pierre F J Lermusiaux, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States
Predicting Ocean Vertical Transport via Surface Coherent Structures (641502)
Michael Allshouse1, H. M. Aravind1, Sutanu Sarkar2, Vicky Kumar Verma3 and Pierre F J Lermusiaux4, (1)Northeastern University, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Boston, MA, United States, (2)Univ California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, (3)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, (4)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States
Observations of the Almeria-Oran front by underwater gliders (639703)
Daniel L Rudnick1, Nikolaos Zarokanellos2, John Allen2, Simon Ruiz3, Ananda Pascual4 and Joaquin Tintore2, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)Balearic Islands Coastal Observing and Forecasting System (SOCIB), Palma de Mallorca, Spain, (3)IMEDEA(CSIC-UIB), Esporles, Spain, (4)Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (CSIC-UIB), Esporles, Spain
Consideration of the biogeochemical implications for mesoscale instability driven cross front filaments in glider oxygen optode sensor data (650811)
Eva Alou-Font1, Nikolaos Zarokanellos2, Mara Freilich3,4, Andrea Cabornero1, Cristian Munoz1, Daniel L Rudnick5, Amala Mahadevan4, Joaquin Tintore2,6 and John Allen2, (1)Balearic Islands Coastal Observing System, SOCIB, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, (2)Balearic Islands Coastal Observing and Forecasting System (SOCIB), Palma de Mallorca, Spain, (3)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (5)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (6)Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies, Esporles, Spain
Biophysical Evidence of Subduction at Submesoscales (641415)
Mathieu Dever1, Mara Freilich2,3, Andrey Y. Shcherbina4, Francesco Marcello Falcieri5 and Amala Mahadevan3, (1)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)MIT- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Joint Program in Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (3)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (4)Applied Physics Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States, (5)CNR-ISMAR, Italy
The Vertical Structure of Meso- and Submeso-scale Vertical Transport (648672)
Mara Freilich, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States; MIT-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Amala Mahadevan, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
