PL12A:
Ocean Transport and Eddy Energy II

Session ID#: 92642

Session Description:
Ocean mesoscale processes play a significant role in the energy cycle of the ocean as both a reservoir of energy and a mechanism for energy exchange. This includes energy exchanges between the ocean and atmosphere, across spatial scales, and between reservoirs of potential and kinetic energy within the ocean. The eddy energy cycle has a significant impact on the transport of momentum, heat, carbon, and nutrients throughout the ocean.

In this session, we invite contributions from observational, theoretical, and modeling studies on the role of mesoscale processes in the ocean energy cycle. Specifically, we are interested in

(i) Novel diagnostics of eddy sources, sinks and fluxes of momentum, buoyancy, and energy;  

(ii) Understanding of mesoscale eddy energy and its role in the ocean circulation, and the transport of physical and biogeochemical tracers;

(iii) Parameterizations of eddy momentum and buoyancy fluxes in numerical models and their link to the energy budget.

Co-Sponsor(s):
  • OM - Ocean Modeling
  • PS - Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Smaller
Index Terms:

4512 Currents [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4520 Eddies and mesoscale processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4532 General circulation [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Primary Chair:  Laure Zanna, University of Oxford, Dept of Physics, Oxford, United Kingdom
Co-chairs:  Alistair Adcroft, Princeton University, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, Sylvia T Cole, WHOI, Woods Hole, United States and Ian Grooms, University of Colorado at Boulder, Applied Mathematics, Boulder, United States
Primary Liaison:  Laure Zanna, University of Oxford, Dept of Physics, Oxford, United Kingdom
Moderators:  Sylvia T Cole, WHOI, Woods Hole, United States and Ian Grooms, University of Colorado at Boulder, Applied Mathematics, Boulder, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Laure Zanna, University of Oxford, Dept of Physics, Oxford, United Kingdom

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

PL12A-01
Energetically Consistent, Resolution Aware, Parameterization of Mesoscale Eddies in the Ocean (648077)
Malte Jansen1, Alistair Adcroft2, Sina Khani3 and Hailu Kong1, (1)The University of Chicago, Department of the Geophysical Sciences, Chicago, IL, United States, (2)Princeton University, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)University of Washington, Applied Physics Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States
PL12A-02
Acute sensitivity of ocean circulation to mesoscale eddy energy dissipation time-scale (642581)
Julian Mak, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong; University of Oxford, Physics, Oxford, United Kingdom, David Philip Marshall, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Gurvan Madec, LOCEAN-IPSL, CNRS/IRD/MNHN/Sorbonne Université, Paris, France and James Roland Maddison, University of Edinburgh, School of Mathematics, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
PL12A-03
Bathymetry-aware parameterizations of eddy buoyancy fluxes (646147)
Yan Wang, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong and Andrew Stewart, University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States
PL12A-04
Evaluating Diffusive Parameterizations of the Effects of Mesoscale Eddies based on Linear Stability Analysis (654623)
Alexa Griesel, Institute of Oceanography, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany and Carsten Eden, University of Hamburg, Institute of Oceanography, Hamburg, Germany
PL12A-05
An eddy-energy based parameterization of subgrid variance contributions to resolved density (650051)
Mehmet Ilicak, Istanbul Technical University, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Istanbul, Turkey and Alistair Adcroft, Princeton University, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton, NJ, United States
PL12A-06
Deep Learning to Infer Eddy Heat Fluxes from Sea Surface Height Patterns of Mesoscale Turbulence (647604)
Tom George, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, Georgy E Manucharyan, University of Washington Seattle Campus, School of Oceanography, Seattle, United States; University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, United States and Andrew F Thompson, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
PL12A-07
Scale Dependent Surface Horizontal Eddy Diffusivity and Its Linkage to Kinetic Energy Spectra (651162)
Aleksi Nummelin, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States, Thomas W N Haine, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, United States, Julius Johannes Marian Busecke, LDEO/Columbia University, NYC, United States and Ryan Abernathey, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States
PL12A-08
Absolute vs. Relative Wind Stress in an Eddy-Resolving Model of the Southern Ocean (650699)
David Roy Munday, British Antarctic Survey, Polar Oceans, Cambridge, United Kingdom and Xiaoming Zhai, University of East Anglia, School of Environmental Sciences, Norwich, NR4, United Kingdom
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