CLIVAR related sessions at 2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting

2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting 

(11-16 February 2018, Portland, Oregon, USA, http://osm.agu.org/2018/).
The deadline for abstract submission is 6 September 2017, 11:59 P.M. EDT.

 

1. Sessions proposed by CLIVAR scientists:

AI001: Advances in understanding ocean eddies and their interactions with the atmosphere

Session ID#: 28123

Session Description:

The ocean, like the atmosphere, is a fundamentally turbulent system. As such, intense nonlinear interactions give rise to fine-scale structures, such as eddies, fronts, jets and filaments, that are of critical importance for the ocean circulation. These features are ubiquitous, and they have been recognized as key contributors to ocean transport of properties. Their energy generally exceeds that of the mean flow by an order of magnitude or more. Mounting evidence points to intense interactions, especially in the extratropics, between the atmosphere and the ocean on the scales of ocean eddies, which are much smaller than atmospheric synoptic scales. These interactions can have an important impact on the entire troposphere, affecting the positions of jet streams and their low-frequency variability, and they are likely a key-missing element in closing the budget of Earth’s energy imbalance. Theoretical understanding of eddy dynamics, especially in terms of air-sea interactions, however, remains incomplete. This represents an acute weakness in our present understanding of coupled ocean-atmosphere dynamics and its role in shaping variability and change of Earth’s climate.

We encourage submissions of abstracts describing new research findings, from observations and numerical modeling, on ocean mesoscale eddies, including their interactions with and feedbacks from the atmosphere.

Primary Chair:  Sabrina Speich, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris, Paris, France

Co-chairs:  Walter A Robinson, North Carolina State University Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States, Enrique Curchitser, Rudgers University, Rutgers Dept. of Environmental Sciences, New Brunswick, United States and Xiaopei Lin, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China

 

EP005. Closing the gap between wind stress and ecosystem productivity in eastern boundary upwelling regions

Session ID#: 28650

Session Description:

Eastern boundary upwelling ecosystems contain the most productive fisheries in the world.  This immense fish production results from upwelled nutrients that stimulate high primary and secondary production.  However, the relationships between atmospheric forcing and the ecological productivity of these ecosystems are not straightforward.  Variability in nutrient stoichiometry, oxygen concentrations, nutricline depth, seasonal timing of upwelling, mesoscale and submesoscale variability, onshore geostrophic flow, and subduction of underutilized nutrients below the adjacent oligotrophic water masses are all examples of processes that can obscure the relationships between the intensity of upwelling-favorable wind stress and ecosystem productivity.  In this session, we welcome contributions that investigate processes that may be crucial for resolving the relationships between atmospheric forcing and primary and secondary production.  The objective of the session is to improve the community’s understanding of the processes and resolutions required (in both models and observations) to accurately describe the impacts of physical and biogeochemical drivers on fish and other higher-trophic-level populations of interest.  Such understanding will allow better interpretation of non-stationary empirical relationships between physical conditions and ecosystem state, and is necessary to properly project and interpret ecological impacts of climate variability and change.

Primary Chair:  Ryan R Rykaczewski, University of South Carolina Columbia, Columbia, SC, United States

Co-chairs:  Steven James Bograd, NOAA Pacific Grove, Pacific Grove, CA, United States, Michael Jacox, University of California-Santa Cruz, San Francisco, CA, United States and Bryan Black, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States

 

OD003: Data rescue and synthesis for climate and environmental science

Session ID#: 29822

Session Description:

The purpose of this session is to discuss how researchers synthesize long-term environmental data from repositories and archives to develop new products. Mining large volumes of long-term observations is required to establish reference baselines against which the state of the environment can be assessed and offer new revelations and approaches to our current scientific understanding. Integrative data analyses that incorporate multidisciplinary and “Big Data” approaches are a powerful way to obtain insights beyond the data’s original collection purpose. A central use case involves the long-term subsurface ocean temperature and salinity observational datasets that are essential to the understanding of variability and change in the Earth's energy and water cycle, to discriminate between natural and anthropogenic drivers, and to predict future changes. Millions of ocean subsurface observations have been collected by different investigators and institutions, with a variety of quality standards. An important aspect of putting our current environment in perspective is identifying and restoring to general use these historic observations in order to extend our understanding environmental change as far back in time as possible. Data rescue is not only creating and improving access to historical data but also assuring the quality of those data. We invite scientists, resource management practitioners, and policy makers to discuss ways they are currently leveraging environmental data holdings and any issues or recommendations they have for improvements of how data are put in or accessed from large national and international databases. This session invites abstracts related to the discovery and availability of environmental data and metadata as well as improving the utility of these data though the use of various quality control techniques. The focus of the session will be on describing these diverse efforts, lessons learned, and best practices to improve integration of diverse data holdings that can then spur research that addresses innovative science and provides decision makers with actionable information.

Primary Chair:  Carrie Wall, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States; National Centers for Environmental Information, NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States

Co-chairs:  Catia M Domingues, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, Krisa M Arzayus, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, NCEI, Silver Spring, MD, United States and Matthew D Palmer, UK National Oceanography Centr, Liverpool, United Kingdom

 

PC002: Causes of Contemporary Sea Level Variability and Change from Global to Coastal Scales

Session ID#: 27675

Session Description:

Quantitative understanding of the causes of sea level variability and change is important for the development of improved sea level projections and forecasts and assessment of related coastal impacts. This session seeks modeling and data analyses that address causes of sea level variability and change on timescales of months to centuries, at the local, regional and global levels. Of particular interest are studies that advance understanding of the connections between the large-scale ocean circulation and coastal sea level, including how climate modes of variability project onto the coastal zone. Other topics of interest include the mass and steric contributions to sea level budgets and their underlying forcing mechanisms and dynamics involving air-sea-ice interactions, and the attribution of regional sea level change to natural and anthropogenic causes.

Primary Chair:  Rui M Ponte, Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Lexington, MA, United States

Co-chairs:  Benoit Meyssignac, Observatory Midi-Pyrenees, Toulouse, France, Catia M Domingues, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia and Detlef Stammer, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

 

PC005. Meridional Overturning Circulation dynamics in past warm and cold climates

Session ID#: 29792

Session Description:

The meridional overturning circulation (MOC) is a key component of the global climate system, as it modulates the transport and storage of both heat and carbon. Changes in deep-ocean circulation are thought to have played a key role in past climatic transitions, such as between glacial and interglacial periods. However, reaching a quantitative understanding of the dynamics that contributed to these changes, remains a major challenge in climate research. The MOC’s response to current climate trends is also an unknown when assessing future global ocean-climate-carbon cycle interactions. Investigating how the MOC varied in the past can provide crucial information on the mechanisms and drivers of its variability, as well as on the possible impacts of future circulation changes. This multidisciplinary session will facilitate discussions between the modeling and data communities, with the aim to explore both the transient and equilibrium response of the MOC to different forcing scenarios. We welcome contributions from both proxy-based studies to reconstruct past changes, and those exploring these dynamics from a mechanistic perspective, spanning from theoretical approaches to fully-coupled numerical modeling efforts. We especially encourage combined model-data analyses, as well as studies investigating past periods that could be viewed as analogues for future climates.

Primary Chair:  Alice Marzocchi, University of Chicago, Geophysical Sciences, Chicago, IL, United States

Co-chairs:  Benoit Thibodeau, The University of Hong Kong, Earth Sciences and SWIMS, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Juan Muglia, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States and Andrea Burke, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, KY16, United Kingdom

 

PC012. Tracking ocean heat content and its role in Earth’s climate variability and change

Session ID#: 28436

Session Description:

The ocean’s capacity to store heat and to redistribute it geographically and over depth is fundamental to understanding Earth’s climate and sea level variability and change. More than 90% of the Earth's energy imbalance and about one-third of observed global mean sea level rise are explained by ocean heat uptake. This session aims to bring together studies tracking ocean heat content and thermosteric sea level and its implications for climate and sea level variability and change, from global to regional scales. We welcome studies based on in situ and satellite observing systems, ocean or coupled reanalyses, and climate modelling as well as process studies. Studies focusing on the ocean’s role in the Earth energy imbalance, climate sensitivity and regional changes associated to natural climate modes of variability are also solicited.

Primary Chair:  Karina von Schuckmann, Mercator Océan, Ramonville-Saint-Agne, France; Mercator Ocean, Ramonville-Saint-Agne, France

Co-chairs:  Tim Boyer, National Oceanographic Data Center, Silver Spring, MD, United States, Cheng Lijing, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, International Center for Climate and Environment Sciences, Beijing, China and Andrea Storto, CMCC, Bologna, Italy

 

PL001. Advances in our understanding of the meridional overturning circulation in the South Atlantic

Session ID#: 27827

Session Description:

The meridional overturning circulation (MOC) is a key component of the climate system because of its role in redistributing heat, salt and carbon around the globe.  The tremendous growth of the MOC observing system over the past ~15 years has led to new discoveries about the spatial and temporal variability of the MOC and how it influences coastal sea level, weather, and climate. Models and observations have shown that the water masses formed in remote regions are significantly altered as they transit the South Atlantic by processes such as mixing, advection, and local air-sea interactions.  These modifications may lead to changes of the MOC strength and variability, and thus of the meridional heat and freshwater transport changes.  In this session, we focus on recent results gleaned from observing systems in the South Atlantic, including moored, satellite, shipboard, and Lagrangian measurements. Recent model results on the MOC in the region, are also welcome.  Together these observations and modeling results can provide a comprehensive view on South Atlantic MOC (SAMOC) variability. We encourage abstract submissions on new MOC-related findings in the South Atlantic, as well as on recommendation and/or design studies for the future evolution of the SAMOC observing system.

Primary Chair:  Renellys C Perez, UM/CIMAS, Miami, FL, United States

Co-chairs:  Maria Paz Chidichimo, Argentine Scientific and Technological Research Council; Hydrographic Service; Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Rebecca Marie Hummels, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany and Tarron Lamont, Department of Environmental Affairs, South Africa

 

PL002. Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: Modeling and Observations

Session ID#: 27800

Session Description:

Through its associated heat, salt, and carbon transports, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) significantly influences the climate of the North Atlantic and surrounding areas and can even impact global climate through interactions with atmosphere on seasonal to multi-decadal timescales. Because the memory of the ocean vastly exceeds that of the atmosphere, AMOC is thought to represent the dynamical memory of the climate system, playing a major role in climate variations, hence in climate predictions, on these and even longer, i.e., centennial to millennial, timescales. Support for such a prominent role for AMOC on long time scales comes from coupled general circulation model simulations and proxy records. On shorter, i.e., intra-seasonal to decadal, timescales, measurements of transports, heat content, and other variables throughout the Atlantic Ocean have been instrumental in investigating the spatial structure, mechanisms, and impacts of AMOC variability, showing the importance of processes from the mesoscale to the basin scale. A synergy of knowledge gained from all these efforts will lead to a better understanding of AMOC.

We invite contributions from modeling and observational (both instrumental and proxy) studies, investigating AMOC variability and mechanisms as well as its role in climate predictions on various, e.g., decadal, timescales.

Primary Chair:  Gokhan Danabasoglu, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States

Co-chairs:  Femke de Jong, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Rong Zhang, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory and Meric A Srokosz, National Oceanography Center, Soton, Southampton, United Kingdom

 

PL003. Biophysical dynamics of boundary upwelling systems in a changing ocean: Synthesis of current knowledge and future observational and modeling approaches

Session ID#: 27990

Session Description:

Boundary upwelling ecosystems (BUE) are known to play a significant role for ocean productivity and regulation of regional climate variability. The strong coupling between atmospheric forcing, ocean circulation, biogeochemical cycling, and fisheries have long motivated multidisciplinary studies that are now common in BUE. These ecosystems are increasingly vulnerable to the multiple effects caused by climate change, ocean acidification, deoxygenation, harvest of marine resources and coastal development.  In order to manage and predict these valuable ecosystems, new and evolving scientific approaches to the collection of information and modeling are required. In this session, we seek papers synthesizing current knowledge as well as advances in the development of new observational tools and modeling approaches for understanding the multi-faceted dynamics of BUE.

Primary Chair:  Enrique N Curchitser, Rutgers University New Brunswick, Department of Environmental Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States

Co-chairs:  Raleigh Hood, University of Maryland and Ruben Escribano, Universidad de Concepcion, Chile

 

PL006. Multi-scale Variability of Western Boundary Currents and their Role in Climate and Ecosystems

Session ID#: 29753

Session Description:

The global oceanic basins feature energetic boundary currents (BCs) that redistribute water, heat and salt, and exhibit a complex web of physical and biogeochemical processes along their paths.  As such, BCs play a major role in regulating the global climate system. Yet monitoring the multi-space and time scales of the energetic dynamic flows of boundary currents can be complicated. These boundary currents tend to act as barriers to cross-front flow, but variability associated with multiple types of instabilities, and on a range of time and space scales, act to facilitate cross-front flow, stirring, and mixing along their paths, further complicating the study of these currents.  This session seeks contributions from studies including, but not limited to, the full multi-scale variability of BCs from time and space scales that span subseasonal to multi-decadal and from turbulent to basin scales; their interaction with marginal seas, frontal processes and air-sea interaction; and their impacts on marine ecosystems.  In addition, we welcome papers that discuss observational (in situ and remote), analysis, theoretical and model simulations that emphasize achievements in sustained BC monitoring, and so provide guidance for the  development of a future effective and efficient monitoring network.

Primary Chair:  Zhaohui Chen, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China

Co-chairs:  Janet Sprintall, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, Emma E Heslop, SOCIB, Palma, Spain and Stuart P Bishop, North Carolina State University, Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, Raleigh, NC, United States

 

2. Sessions related to CLIVAR Science: 

Air-Sea Interactions

AI002. Air-Sea Exchange Processes in Western Boundary Current Systems and Marginal Seas: Their Local and Remote Climatic Implications

AI003. Air-Sea Interaction at the Mesoscale and Submesoscale

AI008. Ocean salinity and its role in ocean dynamics and the water cycle

AI009. Role of oceans in tropical/extratropical air-sea interactions

AI010. Southern Ocean air-sea exchange and mixed-layer processes

AI011. Surface Currents in a Coupled Air/Sea System: Physics and Applications

AI012. The influence of El Niño Southern Oscillation on biogeochemical cycling in eastern boundary upwelling system oxygen minimum zones and air-sea exchange in the overlying waters

AI013. Tropical Cyclone-Ocean Interactions: From Weather to Climate

AI014. Turbulent Air-Sea Fluxes: Observations and Modeling

 

Ecology and Physical Interactions

EP003. Basin to global scale ocean transport, connectivity, and dispersal: interdisciplinary connections

EP009. Open ocean biological-physical interactions in the Eastern North Pacific from low to mid latitudes through in situ observations, satellite data and models

EP011. Physical-biogeochemical interactions across scales: from microscale to mesoscale

EP012. Topographic Influences on Oceanographic Processes, Marine Communities, and Ecology

 

High Latitude Environments

HE002. Carbon cycling in Arctic Ocean and adjacent marginal seas under a changing climate

HE003. Freshwater Fluxes in the Arctic Ocean – North Atlantic Climate System

HE004. Ice-Ocean Interactions and Circulation around the Antarctic Margins

HE005. Linkages among changes in physical and biogeochemical processes in the Eurasian sector of the Arctic Ocean

HE007. Melting of glaciers, icebergs, ice shelves, and coastal permafrost and impacts on physical properties and biogeochemistry of the ocean

HE008. North Atlantic – Nordic seas – Arctic Ocean heat exchanges: Processes and Impacts

HE010. Response of the southern ocean, sea-ice and ice shelves to the changing climate

HE011. Similarities and differences of Ocean dynamics at both ends of the globe

HE012. The Connections Among Changes in the Arctic Ocean, World Ocean, and Climate

HE014. The role of small-scale processes in the dynamics of the changing Arctic Ocean

 

Ocean Observatories, Instrumentation and Sensing Technologies

IS003. From watersheds to the open ocean: advances in remote sensing for monitoring water quality, food security, ecosystems, and change

IS005. Increasing Success of Underwater Glider Missions.

IS006. Innovative and Emerging Research Technologies with proven or potential for High Impact in the Marine Sciences

IS009. New Advances in Ocean and Climate Sciences Driven by Underway Measurements of Ocean and Atmospheric Properties

IS010. New Platform and Sensor Technologies: Advancing Research, Readiness and Transitioning for Sustained Ocean Observing of Essential Ocean Variables

IS011. Ocean Observatory Science – From Events to Climat

IS012. Sea Surface Roughness Observed by High Resolution Radar

IS013. Technology Advances in Deep Ocean Observing

 

Ocean Data Management

OD006. Real-Time Quality Control of Oceanographic Data Emerging Technologies and their Data QC Practices

 

Ocean Modeling

OM002. Advances in Data Assimilation and Uncertainty Quantification for Ocean Forecasting and Analysis

OM004. Ensemble Modeling Approaches in Physical and Biogeochemical Oceanography

OM005. High-Resolution Ocean Modelling for Ocean-Ice Sheet Interaction Studies around the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets

OM006. Integrating Observations of Plankton Communities and Physiology into Numerical Models

OM007. Modeling the Climate System at High Resolution

OM008. Multiscale and multiphysics modeling of coastal and regional ocean processes: Recent progress and challenges for the future

OM009. Ocean Model Coupling (Air-Ocean, Ice-Ocean, Wave-Ocean) on Subseasonal through Interannual Time Scales to Support the National Earth System Prediction Capability

 

Past, Present and Future Climate

PC001. Advances in understanding marine heatwaves and their impacts

PC002. Causes of Contemporary Sea Level Variability and Change from Global to Coastal Scales

PC003. El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Diversity, Predictability, and Impacts

PC004. History and Development of Greenland Ice and Arctic Sea Ice

PC006. Nano- and Micro-scale Chemical Signatures in the Ocean: Small Signals from Climate and Microbes with a Big Impact

PC007. Oceanic Climate and Ecosystem Variability and Change in Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems

PC009. The Ocean as a Mediator of Climate and Climate Change

PC010. The Role of the Southern Ocean in the Global Carbon Cycle

PC011. Towards a 1.5oC World: The Ocean Response

 

Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Larger

PL004. Deep and Abyssal Ocean Circulations in the Pacific: Characterization, Dynamics, and Representation

PL005. From WOCE through CLIVAR to GO-SHIP: Results from Global Repeat Hydrographic Surveys

PL007. New Insights into the Dynamics of the Western Tropical Indian Ocean

PL008. Ocean Surface and Internal Tides

PL009. The Driving Forces of the Ocean’s General Circulation

PL010. The Fate of Antarctic Bottom Water: Ventilation, Circulation, and Mixing of the Abyssal Ocean

PL011. Transient Eddies, Stationary Meanders and Southern Ocean Circulation and Tracer Transport

PL012. Western Pacific and Indonesian seas circulation and its environmental and climatic impacts

 

Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Smaller

PS001. Deep Ocean Communication Through Topographic Pathways

PS002. Facing the challenges in interpreting high resolution satellite observations due to the co-existence of internal gravity waves and balanced motions in the world oceans

PS003. How do submesoscale and internal wave driven mixing matter on global and regional scales?

PS004. Interaction between internal waves and multiple-scale dynamics

PS005. Key Ocean Science Opportunities and Challenges from the SWOT Mission

PS006. Recent Advancements in Stratified Turbulent Mixing

PS007. Transport and Coherent Structures: New and Traditional Approaches for Studying Ocean Stirring and Mixing

 

Physical Oceanography: Other

PO003. Detection, Analysis and Modeling of the Distribution and Transport of Oceanic Debris

PO005. Multiscale topographic effects on large-scale flow: From wakes and lee waves to small-scale turbulence and mixing

PO006. Understanding the differing roles of ocean ventilation and mixing on heat and carbon uptake

 

Regional Studies

RS002. Ocean circulation and air-sea interaction in the Bay of Bengal

RS003. Physical, Chemical and Ecological Environment of Deep Marginal Seas

RS006. The Regional Ocean Circulation, Water Exchanges and related Studies in the South China Sea

 

Tutorials

T005. Oceanography from space for everyone:  Demystifying satellite data for researchers and end-users

T006. Ocean Remote With Global Navigation Satellite System Reflectometry (GNSS-R)

T008. [Overturning the ocean circulation

T009. Seismic Oceanography: What can active-source seismic reflection profiling tell us about the oceanic water column?

 

Town Hall

Deep Ocean Observing Strategy (DOOS) Town Hall

 

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