PL13A:
Ocean Transport and Eddy Energy III
Session ID#: 92646
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):
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: Ian Grooms, University of Colorado at Boulder, Applied Mathematics, Boulder, United States and Laure Zanna, University of Oxford, Dept of Physics, Oxford, United Kingdom
Student Paper Review Liaison: Laure Zanna, University of Oxford, Dept of Physics, Oxford, United Kingdom
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Circumpolar variations in Southern Ocean eddy dynamics: An ensemble approach (644818)
Andrew M Hogg1, Thierry Penduff2, Sally E Close3, William K Dewar4, Navid Constantinou5 and Josué Martínez Moreno5, (1)Australian National University and ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, ACT, Australia, (2)CNRS - LGGE, MEOM, Grenoble, France, (3)Institut des Géosciences de l'Environnement, CNRS/Univ. Grenoble Alpes/G-INP/IRD, Grenoble, France, (4)Florida State University, EOAS, Tallahassee, FL, United States, (5)Australian National University, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, ACT, Australia
A simple scaling for the total transport and the vertical shear of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (656666)
Louis-Philippe Nadeau, University of Quebec at Rimouski UQAR, Rimouski, QC, Canada, Antoine Venaille, CNRS, ENS de Lyon, Laboratoire de Physique, Lyon, France, David Straub, McGill University, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Montréal, QC, Canada and Raffaele M Ferrari, MIT, Cambridge, United States
A Stochastic Model of the Isopycnal Slope for Use in the Gent-McWilliams Parameterization (653899)
Zofia Stanley1, Alistair Adcroft2, Scott D Bachman3, Frederic S Castruccio4, Ian Grooms5 and William Kleiber5, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Applied Mathematics, Boulder, United States, (2)Princeton University, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics, Boulder, United States, (5)University of Colorado at Boulder, Applied Mathematics, Boulder, CO, United States
Global Detection and Regional Characterization of Anticyclonic Submesoscale Coherent Vortices using Argo Float Profiles. (640753)
Daniel McCoy1, Daniele Bianchi1 and Andrew Stewart2, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States
The Multiscale Nature of Potential to Kinetic Energy Conversion in the Ocean (646394)
Mahmoud Mostafa Sadek, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, United States; Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, Hussein Aluie, University of Rochester, Rochester, United States, Matthew W Hecht, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Geoffery K Vallis, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
Generation mechanisms of mesoscale eddies in the Eastern Tropical North Atlantic Ocean. (655948)
Ahmad Fehmi Dilmahamod1,2, Johannes Karstensen3, Heiner Dietze4, Ulrike Löptien5 and Katja Fennel2, (1)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Physical Oceanography, Kiel, Germany, (2)Dalhousie University, Department of Oceanography, Halifax, NS, Canada, (3)Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Res, Kiel, Germany, (4)GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany, (5)GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung, Kiel, Germany
