AI11A:
Extratropical Air-Sea Interactions and Extreme Events I

Session ID#: 93379

Session Description:
Many recent studies have indicated that impacts of the extratropical ocean to the atmosphere occur through sea surface temperature (SST) distribution associated with strong ocean currents and/or eddies. The atmospheric responses are found on various spatiotemporal scales from large-scale atmospheric circulation anomalies, developments of tropical and extratropical cyclones and severe rain-/snow-fall through enhanced heat and moisture supply from the warm ocean. Mechanisms for those impacts, however, are still not fully understood. This session invites contributions on all aspects of extratropical air-sea interactions and related ocean and atmosphere variability and its predictability through observational theoretical and modeling studies.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • PL - Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Larger
Index Terms:

4215 Climate and interannual variability [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4504 Air/sea interactions [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4528 Fronts and jets [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4576 Western boundary currents [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Primary Chair:  Masami Nonaka, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Kanagawa, Japan
Co-chairs:  Thomas Spengler, University of Bergen and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway, Arnaud Czaja, Imperial College London, Physics, London, United Kingdom and Shoshiro Minobe, Hokkaido Univ-Grad. School Sci, Natural History Sciences, Sapporo, Japan
Primary Liaison:  Masami Nonaka, JAMSTEC, Application Laboratory, Yokohama, Japan
Moderators:  Thomas Spengler, University of Bergen and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway, Arnaud Czaja, Imperial College London, Physics, London, United Kingdom, Shoshiro Minobe, Hokkaido Univ-Grad. School Sci, Natural History Sciences, Sapporo, Japan and LuAnne Thompson, University of Washington, Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Masami Nonaka, JAMSTEC, Application Laboratory, Yokohama, Japan

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

AI11A-01
Covariability of maritime surface wind divergence and vorticity extremes on synoptic timescales (656274)
Larry W O'Neill, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
AI11A-02
A New Framework for Wind Convergence over Western Boundary Currents (643177)
Rhys Parfitt, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States, Hyodae Seo, WHOI, Woods Hole, United States and Young-Oh Kwon, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, United States
AI11A-03
Seasonality and regional characteristics of sea-surface wind responses to mesoscale SST features (643805)
Ryusuke Masunaga, United States; University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States and Niklas Schneider, Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, United States
AI11A-04
A cluster analysis of the tracks of North Atlantic wintertime atmospheric rivers and links to extreme precipitation and winds (646179)
Chuxuan Li, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, Wei Mei, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences, Chapel Hill, United States and Youichi Kamae, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
AI11A-05
Sea surface temperature perturbations and atmospheric rivers over the western North Pacific (637321)
Youichi Kamae, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan and Wei Mei, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences, Chapel Hill, United States
AI11A-06
Testing the trade wind charging mechanism and its influence on ENSO variability (652807)
Soumi Chakravorty, UM/CIMAS & NOAA/AOML, Miami, United States, Renellys C Perez, NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Miami, United States, Bruce T Anderson, Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States, Benjamin S Giese, Texas A&M University, Dept. of Oceanography, College Station, TX, United States, Sarah Larson, North Carolina State University Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States and Valentina Pivotti, Boston University, Department of Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States
AI11A-07
Interactions between Kuroshio Extension and Central Tropical Pacific lead to preferred decadal-timescale oscillations in Pacific climate (644585)
Youngji Joh and Emanuele Di Lorenzo, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, GA, United States
AI11A-08
Role of mixed layer depth in decadal variability of the Kuroshio Extension region in the western North Pacific (644525)
Tomoki Tozuka, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, Takahiro Toyoda, Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tsukuba, Japan and Meghan F Cronin, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, United States
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