Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Larger



PL001
Advances in understanding of the meridional overturning circulation in the South Atlantic: Variability, Mechanisms, and Impacts
Primary Chair:  Shenfu Dong, Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Miami, FL, United States
Co-chairs:  Marion Kersalé, CIMAS/University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, Olga T Sato, Oceanographic Institute of the University of Sao Paulo IOUSP, Sao Paulo, Brazil and Daniel Valla, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas / SHN, Argentina, Argentina
Primary Liaison:  Shenfu Dong, AOML/NOAA, Miami, FL, United States


PL002
Atlantic Ocean Variability in a Changing Climate: Observations, Modeling, and Theories
Primary Chair:  Feili Li, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States
Co-chairs:  Rohit Ghosh, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, The Ocean in the Earth System, Hamburg, Germany, Laifang Li, Duke Univ-Earth & Ocean Sci, Durham, NC, United States and Dian Putrasahan, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Primary Liaison:  Feili Li, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States


PL003
Climate variability, ocean dynamics and biogeochemical cycles in the Indian Ocean
Primary Chair:  Lei Zhang, University of Colorado Boulder, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
Co-chairs:  Weiqing Han, University of Colorado Boulder, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, Raleigh R Hood, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, MD, United States and Jeremy David Wiggert, The University of Southern Mississippi, Division of Marine Science, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States
Primary Liaison:  Lei Zhang, University of Colorado Boulder, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States


PL004
Ocean salinity in support of scientific and environmental demands
Primary Chair:  Nadya Vinogradova Shiffer, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
Co-chairs:  Audrey Emilie Alice Hasson, LOCEAN ESA/CNRS, Paris Cedex 05, France, Severine Fournier, JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States and Kyla Drushka, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Nadya Vinogradova Shiffer, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States


PL005
Ocean Tides: From Planetary to Turbulent Scales
Primary Chair:  Maarten C Buijsman, University of Southern Mississippi, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States
Co-chairs:  Mattias Green, Bangor University, School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor, LL59, United Kingdom, Zhongxiang Zhao, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States and Sophie-Berenice Wilmes, Bangor University, Menai Bridge, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Maarten C Buijsman, University of Southern Mississippi, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States


PL006
Ocean Transport and Eddy Energy
Primary Chair:  Laure Zanna, University of Oxford, Dept of Physics, Oxford, United Kingdom
Co-chairs:  Alistair Adcroft, Princeton University, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, Sylvia T Cole, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Ian Grooms, University of Colorado Boulder, Applied Mathematics, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Laure Zanna, University of Oxford, Dept of Physics, Oxford, United Kingdom


PL006
Ocean Transport and Eddy Energy


PL007
Tropical Indo-Pacific ocean circulation and climate variations
Primary Chair:  Dongliang Yuan, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
Co-chairs:  William K Dewar, Florida State University, EOAS, Tallahassee, FL, United States, Matthew H England, Univ New South Wales, Sydney, Australia and Janet Sprintall, Univ California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jing Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China


PL008
Turbulent pathways and deep ocean ventilation
Primary Chair:  Ali Mashayek, Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom
Co-chairs:  Lynne D Talley, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, Alberto Naveira Garabato, University of Southampton, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom and Colm-cille Patrick Caulfield, University of Cambridge, BP Institute/DAMTP, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Ali Mashayek, Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom


AI001
Extratropical air-sea interactions and extreme events
Primary Chair:  Masami Nonaka, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, 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, Application Laboratory, JAMSTEC, Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan


AI004
Impacts of Inter-Basin Interaction on Climate Variability and Extreme Events
Primary Chair:  Chunzai Wang, State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, SCSIO, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
Co-chairs:  Michael A Alexander, NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory, Physical Science Division, Boulder, CO, United States, Noel Keenlyside, University of Bergen and Bjerknes Centre, Bergen, Norway and Belen Rodriguez-Fonseca, Complutense University of Madrid, Facultad de Fisicas, Madrid, Spain
Primary Liaison:  Chunzai Wang, State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, SCSIO, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China


AI008
Towards an improved understanding of Indian Ocean dynamics and its role in the Monsoon
Primary Chair:  Aneesh C Subramanian, University of Colorado Boulder, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, United States
Co-chairs:  Manikandan Mathur, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Aerospace Engineering, Chennai, India, Hemantha W Wijesekera, Naval Research Laboratory, Ocean Sciences, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States and Harindra Joseph Fernando, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Aneesh C Subramanian, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), La Jolla, CA, United States


AI009
Tropical Cyclone-Ocean Interactions: From Weather to Climate
Primary Chair:  Karthik Balaguru, PNNL, Marine Sciences Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States
Co-chairs:  Gregory R Foltz, NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL, United States, I-I Lin, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan and Chunzai Wang, State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, SCSIO, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
Primary Liaison:  Gregory R Foltz, NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL, United States


CT006
Ocean Ventilation: Results and Innovations from Transient and Deliberate Tracers
Primary Chair:  Toste S Tanhua, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Co-chairs:  Douglas Wallace, Dalhousie University, Department of Oceanography, Halifax, NS, Canada, Mark J Warner, Univ Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States and Rana A Fine, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Toste S Tanhua, Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany


HE005
Ice-Ocean Interactions and Circulation around the Antarctic Margins
Primary Chair:  Andrew Stewart, University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States
Co-chairs:  Louise C Biddle, University of Gothenburg, Department of Marine Sciences, Gothenburg, Sweden, Matthew H England, Univ New South Wales, Sydney, Australia and Andrew F Thompson, California Institute of Technology, Physical Oceanography, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Andrew Stewart, University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States


HE006
Mechanisms for Variability, Circulation, and Transformation of Water Masses in the Southern Ocean
Primary Chair:  Annie Foppert, Centre for Southern Hemisphere Oceans Research, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, Australia, Hobart, TAS, Australia
Co-chairs:  Edward Doddridge, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Dafydd Gwyn Evans, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom and Madeleine K Youngs, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Annie Foppert, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, United States


HE011
The Changing Thermohaline Structure of the Arctic Ocean: Mechanisms and Impacts
Primary Chair:  Jiaxu Zhang, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Co-chairs:  James M Thomson, Applied Physics Lab (UW), Seattle, WA, United States, Matthew A. Dzieciuch, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States and Verma Tarun, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jiaxu Zhang, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States


HE012
Variability of high latitude ocean/sea-ice/atmosphere interactions and associated convection in a changing climate
Primary Chair:  Carmela Veneziani, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Co-chairs:  Carolina O. Dufour, McGill University, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada, Kent Moore, Univ Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada and Kjetil Våge, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Primary Liaison:  Carmela Veneziani, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States


IS013
Operational Satellite Oceanography
Primary Chair:  Christopher Brown, NOAA, NESDIS, College Park, MD, United States
Co-chairs:  Paul M DiGiacomo1, Veronica P Lance1 and François Montagner2, (1)NOAA, NESDIS, College Park, MD, United States(2)EUMETSAT, Remote Sensing and Products Division, Darmstadt, Germany
Primary Liaison:  Christopher Brown, NOAA, NESDIS, College Park, MD, United States


IS014
Power in Partnerships: Innovative Collaborations between Ocean Scientists and Ocean Industry
Primary Chair:  Gwen Nero, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Co-chairs:  Janet Sprintall, Univ California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States and Neil Louis Trenaman, Ocean Aero, San Diego, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Gwen Nero, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States


IS016
Sustained Ocean Observing: From Events to Assessing Long-term Ecosystem Patterns
Primary Chair:  Michael W Lomas, Bigelow Lab for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, United States
Co-chairs:  Richard K Dewey, Univ. of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, John H Trowbridge, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Damian Grundle, Bermuda Institute for Ocean Science, St. Georges, Bermuda
Primary Liaison:  Michael W Lomas, Bigelow Lab for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, United States


IS017
The Tropical Pacific Observing System: Meeting the needs of researchers and stakeholders
Primary Chair:  Shelby Brunner, NOAA Ocean and Atmospheric Research, Ocean Observing and Monitoring Division, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Co-chairs:  Meghan F Cronin, NOAA PMEL, Seattle, WA, United States, Janet Sprintall, Univ California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States and Adrienne J Sutton, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Shelby Brunner, NOAA Ocean and Atmospheric Research, Ocean Observing and Monitoring Division, Silver Spring, MD, United States


OB026
Seasonal Cycles of Ocean Biogeochemistry and Ecosystems Under a Changing Climate
Primary Chair:  Keith B Rodgers, IBS Center for Climate Physics, Busan, South Korea
Co-chairs:  Jorg Schwinger, NORCE Climate, Bergen, Norway and Andrea J Fassbender, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Peter Landschuetzer, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany


OD006
Data Science for Modern Oceanography: Statistics, Machine Learning, Visualization, and More
Primary Chair:  Alison R Gray, University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States
Co-chairs:  Mikael Kuusela, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Statistics and Data Science, Pittsburgh, PA, United States and Donata Giglio, University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Alison R Gray, University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States


OM003
Advances in Ocean Data Assimilation, Forecasting, and Reanalysis
Primary Chair:  Ibrahim Hoteit, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Department of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
Co-chairs:  Mohamed Iskandarani, University of Miami - RSMAS, Miami, FL, United States, Zhijin Li, JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States and Aneesh Subramanian, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ibrahim Hoteit, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Department of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia


OM005
Lagrangian methods for understanding ocean circulation and tracer transport
Primary Chair:  Veronica Tamsitt, University of New South Wales, Climate Change Research Centre, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Co-chairs:  Isabella Rosso, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States and Erik van Sebille, Universiteit Utrecht, Marine & Atmospheric Research, Utrecht, Netherlands
Primary Liaison:  Veronica Tamsitt, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States


PC005
High-Resolution Climate Modeling
Primary Chair:  Justin Small, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Co-chairs:  Ping Chang, Texas A & M Univ, College Station, TX, United States, Gokhan Danabasoglu, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Shaoqing Zhang, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
Primary Liaison:  Justin Small, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States


PC008
Long-term Changes of the Deep Ocean Overturning Circulation: Past and Future
Primary Chair:  Wei Liu, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States
Co-chairs:  Zhengyu Liu, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States, Malte Jansen, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States and Sophia Hines, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States
Primary Liaison:  Wei Liu, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States


PC012
Water-mass analyses and transformation for ocean physics, biogeochemistry and climate studies.
Primary Chair:  Sjoerd Groeskamp, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Den Burg, Netherlands
Co-chairs:  Emily Newsom, University of Oxford, Department of Physics, Oxford, United Kingdom, Daniele Iudicone, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy and Ivana Cerovecki, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sjoerd Groeskamp, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Den Burg, Netherlands


PI004
From Physics to Predators: Environmental Forcing of Marine Ecosystem Hotspots
Primary Chair:  Jerome Fiechter, University of California Santa Cruz, Ocean Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Co-chairs:  Briana Abrahms1, Elliott L. Hazen1 and Monique Messié2, (1)NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Environmental Research Division, Monterey, CA, United States(2)MBARI, Moss Landing, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Briana Abrahms, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Environmental Research Division, Monterey, CA, United States


PI007
Water Mass Variability in Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems: Climate Drivers and Ecosystem Impacts
Primary Chair:  Mercedes Pozo Buil, University of California Santa Cruz, Institute of Marine Sciences, Santa Cruz, GA, United States
Co-chairs:  Melanie R Fewings, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, Carmen G Castro, Instituto de Investigación Mariñas - CSIC, Departamento de Oceanografía, Vigo, Spain and Steven J. Bograd, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Environmental Research Division, Monterey, United States
Primary Liaison:  Mercedes Pozo Buil, University of California Santa Cruz, Institute of Marine Sciences, Santa Cruz, GA, United States


PL002
Atlantic Ocean Variability in a Changing Climate: Observations, Modeling, and Theories
Primary Chair:  Feili Li, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States
Co-chairs:  Rohit Ghosh, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, The Ocean in the Earth System, Hamburg, Germany, Laifang Li, Duke Univ-Earth & Ocean Sci, Durham, NC, United States and Dian Putrasahan, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Primary Liaison:  Feili Li, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States


PL004
Ocean salinity in support of scientific and environmental demands
Primary Chair:  Nadya Vinogradova Shiffer, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
Co-chairs:  Audrey Emilie Alice Hasson, LOCEAN ESA/CNRS, Paris Cedex 05, France, Severine Fournier, JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States and Kyla Drushka, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Nadya Vinogradova Shiffer, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States


PS001
Boundary Currents and Shelf-Deep Ocean Exchange
Primary Chair:  Robert E Todd, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Co-chairs:  Amandine Schaeffer, University of New South Wales, Coastal and Regional Oceanography Lab, School of Maths and Statistics, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Catherine Richardson Edwards, Skidaway Institute of Oceanogr, Savannah, GA, United States and Matthew R Archer, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
Primary Liaison:  Robert E Todd, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States


PS003
Interactions between internal waves and mesoscale/submesoscale currents: Physics and impacts on ocean energetics and mixing
Primary Chair:  Caitlin B Whalen, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
Co-chairs:  Cesar B Rocha, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, United States, Anna Savage, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Portland, ME, United States and Stephanie Waterman, University of British Columbia, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Caitlin B Whalen, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States


PS004
Multidisciplinary upscale effects of meso-, submeso-, and smaller-scale physical processes
Primary Chair:  Paulo Calil, Institute of Coastal Research - Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Submesoscale Dynamics, Geesthacht, Germany
Co-chairs:  Nobuhiro Suzuki, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Institute of Coastal Research, Geesthacht, Germany and Baylor Fox-Kemper, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Nobuhiro Suzuki, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Institute of Coastal Research, Geesthacht, Germany


PS006
Multiscale Topographic Effects on Large-Scale Flow: From Wakes and Lee Waves to Small-Scale Turbulence and Mixing
Primary Chair:  Shaun Johnston, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Co-chairs:  Jody M Klymak, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada and Ruth C Musgrave, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Shaun Johnston, UCSD/SIO, La Jolla, CA, United States


PS007
Observing the Ocean Surface Topography at High Resolution – opportunities and challenges for the future SWOT Mission
Primary Chair:  Rosemary Morrow, LEGOS CNRS/CNES/IRD/University Toulouse III, Toulouse, France
Co-chairs:  Lee-Lueng Fu, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, J. Thomas Farrar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Department of Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Francesco d'Ovidio, LOCEAN, Paris, France
Primary Liaison:  Rosemary Morrow, LEGOS CNRS/CNES/IRD/University Toulouse III, Toulouse, France


PS008
Physical processes governing the distribution and transport of dispersed particles in the ocean
Primary Chair:  Kara L Lavender Law, Sea Education Association, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Co-chairs:  Stefano Aliani, Institute of Marine Sciences CNR, La Spezia, Italy, Tracy Mandel, University of New Hampshire, Mechanical Engineering, Durham, CA, United States and Nimish Pujara, University of Wisconsin Madison, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Madison, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kara L Lavender Law, Sea Education Association, Woods Hole, MA, United States


PS011
Vertical Transport: Pathways from the Surface to the Interior
Primary Chair:  Dhruv Balwada, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NEW YORK, NY, United States
Co-chairs:  Amala Mahadevan, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Julius Johannes Marian Busecke, Princeton University, Department of Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States and Daniel L Rudnick, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Daniel L Rudnick, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States


T015
Past, Present, and Future Satellite Radar Altimeters
Primary Presenter:  Edward Zaron, Portland State University, Portland, OR, United States