AI44A:
Fluxes and Physical Processes Near the Air-Sea Interface: Observations and Modeling (Cosponsored by the AMS Committee on Air-Sea Interaction) VI Posters

Session ID#: 93407

Session Description:
The physical coupling between atmosphere and ocean helps to drive a myriad of processes such as wind-wave growth and the fluxes of momentum, heat, and mass across the air-sea interface. Challenges remain in understanding the nature of the air-sea interface in extreme conditions and along coastal margins, as well as characterizing the link between large- and small-scale processes.  Understanding these phenomena hinges on properly characterizing the physical coupling between air and water across the surface and the turbulent variability in the boundary layers on both sides of the interface. Advances in the spatial and temporal resolution and coverage of in situ observations, modeling, and satellite/airborne remote sensing have greatly improved the ability to characterize various surface processes over large stretches of oceanic area. This session invites contributions that expand our understanding of the mechanisms coupling the ocean-atmosphere system; submissions from observations, experiments, and/or modeling are encouraged. Presentations of novel techniques, methods, and/or venues for air-sea interaction study are highly encouraged. The Chairs hope that this session provides a forum for discussions on the physics of air-sea interaction, with input from an array of technical backgrounds and perspectives. This session is co-sponsored by the American Meteorological Society’s Committee on Air-Sea Interaction.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • CP - Coastal and Estuarine Processes
  • IS - Ocean Observatories, Instrumentation and Sensing Technologies
  • PS - Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Smaller
Index Terms:

4504 Air/sea interactions [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4560 Surface waves and tides [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4568 Turbulence, diffusion, and mixing processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4594 Instruments and techniques [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Primary Chair:  Prof. Nathan Laxague, Ph.D., Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States
Co-chairs:  Melanie R Fewings, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, David G Ortiz-Suslow, Naval Postgraduate School, Department of Meteorology, Monterey, CA, United States and Damien B Josset, Naval Research Laboratory, Ocean Siences Division, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States
Primary Liaison:  Prof. Nathan Laxague, Ph.D., RSMAS, Miami, United States
Moderators:  Damien B Josset, Naval Research Laboratory, Ocean Siences Division, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States and Melanie R Fewings, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Prof. Nathan Laxague, Ph.D., RSMAS, Miami, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
1D Ocean-Atmosphere Coupled Model Applied to a Diurnal Warm Layer Case (655625)
Aurore Voldoire, CNRM, Toulouse, France, Herve Giordani, CNRM-GAME, Toulouse Cedex 01, France, Romain Roehrig, CNRM (Météo-France and CNRS), Toulouse, France, Yunyan Zhang, Lawrence Livermore Nat Labs, Livermore, CA, United States, Shaocheng Xie, Lawrence Livermore Nat''l Lab, Livermore, CA, United States and Hugo Bellenger, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan
 
A Laboratory Investigation of Spume Generation in High Winds for Fresh and Seawater (635602)
Dr. Sanchit Mehta, Ph.D., University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, David G Ortiz-Suslow, Naval Postgraduate School, Department of Meteorology, Monterey, CA, United States and Brian K Haus, University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, Miami, FL, United States
 
A Modified COAWST for Surface Oil Transport in the Gulf of Mexico (657298)
Daneisha Blair, Florida State University, Meteorology, Tallahassee, FL, United States, Yangxing Zheng, Florida St Univ-COAPS, Tallahassee, FL, United States, Mark A Bourassa, Florida State Univ, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Tallahassee, United States and Stephen Van Gorder, Florida State University, EOAS, Tallahassee, FL, United States
 
Acoustic Observations of Bubble Plumes at a Tidal Intrusion Front in the James River Estuary (643317)
Christopher Bassett, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, Andone C Lavery, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, United States, W Rockwell Geyer, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Jim Thomson, University of Washington, Seattle, United States
 
Air-Sea CO2 Fluxes in Hudson Bay during the Spring Sea Ice Melt Season (643884)
Mohamed Ahmed, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, Brent Else, University of Calgary, Department of Geography, Calgary, AB, Canada, Brian Butterworth, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, WI, United States, David W Capelle, University of Manitoba, Centre for Earth Observation Science, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, Lisa Ann Miller, Institute of Ocean Sciences, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Sidney, BC, Canada and Tim N Papakyriakou, Univ Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
 
Air-sea coupled simulations of steady and unsteady oceanic waves. (654637)
Frederique Drullion, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, United States and Shar Sajjadi, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, United States
 
Air-Sea Interactions and Earth System Modeling: An Unified Wave Interface (657907)
Shuyi S Chen, University of Washington, Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States
 
The Impact of Waves and Gustiness on Momentum Fluxes in Typhoons (653588)
Meng Lyu1, Henry Potter1 and Clarence O Collins III2, (1)Texas A&M University, Department of Oceanography, College Station, TX, United States, (2)RSMAS, Miami, FL, United States
 
Annual Mean Surface Heat Fluxes in the Gulf of Mexico (655386)
Miriam Alin Calva, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Atmosphere Science Center, Ciudad de México, DF, Mexico, Jorge Zavala-Hidalgo, Univ Nacional Autonoma Mexico, Mexico City, EM, Mexico; National Autonomous University of Mexico, Atmospheric Science Center, Coyoacan, DF, Mexico, Rosario Romero-Centeno, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate Change, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, DF, Mexico, Maria Elena Osorio-Tai, UNAM - Facultad de Ingeniera, Coyomeapan, DF, Mexico and Angelica Pedraza-Diaz, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, DF, Mexico
 
Bubble mediated gas transfer (655910)
Luc Deike, Princeton University, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton, United States and Wallace Kendall Melville, Univ California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
 
Characterizing Extreme Diurnal Warming in Satellite-Derived Operational Sea Surface Temperature Products (651893)
Gary A Wick, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Sandra L. Castro, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States and Darren L Jackson, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
 
CYGNSS Surface Heat Flux Product: Development and Initial Results (646651)
Juan Crespo1, Shakeel Asharaf1 and Derek J Posselt2, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
 
Development and Testing of the AXBT Realtime Editing System (ARES) (649202)
Casey Densmore, WHOI, Department of Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, United States, Elizabeth Sanabia, US Naval Academy, Department of Oceanography, Annapolis, MD, United States and Steven R Jayne, WHOI, Department of Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States
 
Diurnal to Subseasonal Air-Sea Interaction from a Mooring in the Atlantic ITCZ (652193)
Jonathan Andrew Christophersen, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, Gregory R Foltz, NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Miami, FL, United States and Renellys C Perez, NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Miami, United States
 
Diurnal variability of upper ocean temperatures observed from buoys in the northwestern Pacific (649081)
Meng-Chiao Hsieh, Ming-Huei Chang, Yu-Hsin Cheng, Yiing Jang Yang and Sen Jan, National Taiwan University, Institute of Oceanography, Taipei, Taiwan
 
Dropsonde Atmospheric Surface Flux Estimates in Tropical Cyclones (651804)
Heather Holbach, Florida State University, NGI, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Tallahassee, FL, United States, Kyle Ahern, Florida State University, COAPS, Tallahassee, FL, United States, Ralph C Foster, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States and Bourassa Mark A, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States
 
Effect of component waves on drag coefficient in laboratory experiments (645575)
Rikuya Maekawa, Kindai University, Graduate School of Sience and Engineering, Osaka, Japan, Naoya Suzuki, Kindai University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Osaka, Japan and Naohisa Takagaki, University of Hyogo, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Himeji, Japan
 
Effect of the fluctuation of the wind speed and direction on the drag coefficient investigated using tower-based measurements (642715)
Naoya Suzuki, Kindai University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Osaka, Japan and Takuji Waseda, Univ Tokyo, Frontier Sciences, Chiba, Japan
 
Estimation of Autumnal Cooling and Driven circulations in a Large Estuary (654592)
Amin Ilia1, James O'Donnell2 and Grant McCardell1, (1)University of Connecticut, Marine Sciences, Groton, CT, United States, (2)University of Connecticut, Department of Marine Sciences, Groton, CT, United States
 
Event and Seasonal Scale Variability of Surface Heat and Momentum Fluxes off Oregon and Washington (646868)
Edward Paul Dever1, Jonathan P Fram2, Craig M Risien2, Russell A Desiderio3 and Christopher E Wingard2, (1)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States
 
Gas Exchange via Sea Spray: A Refined Model (643370)
Allison Staniec, University of Connecticut, Groton, CT, United States, Penny Vlahos, University of Connecticut, Marine Sciences, Groton, United States and Edward C Monahan, University of Connecticut, Marine Sciences, Groton, CT, United States
 
Impact of Shoaling Wind Waves on Drag Coefficient in Finite Depth (646849)
Tetsu Hara, Xuanyu Chen and Isaac Ginis, University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI, United States
 
Impacts of Langmuir Turbulence on upper ocean under Tropical Cyclones (647572)
Xiaohui Zhou1, Tetsu Hara2, Isaac Ginis2, Eric A D'Asaro3, Ramsey R Harcourt4 and Zhihua Zheng5, (1)University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, United States, (2)University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI, United States, (3)Applied Physics Lab, Univ of Washington, Seattle, United States, (4)Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, United States, (5)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, College Park, United States
 
Lower atmosphere processes affecting the surface ocean: mixed and mixing layer depths (647297)
Valentina Giunta and Brian Ward, National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG), School of Physics, Galway, Ireland