Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Smaller



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


PS002
Defining the New Frontiers of Ocean Mixing Research
Primary Chair:  Toshiyuki Hibiya, University of Tokyo, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Bunkyo-ku, Japan
Co-Chair:  Naomi Harada, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science & Technology, Yokosuka, Japan
Primary Liaison:  Toshiyuki Hibiya, Univ Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan


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


PS005
Multi-scale Oceanic Processes and Air-sea Interactions in Kuroshio-Oyashio Extension Region: Observations and Modeling
Primary Chair:  Zhao Jing, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
Co-chairs:  Xiaohui Ma1, Zhaohui Chen1 and Ping Chang2, (1)Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China(2)Texas A & M Univ, College Station, TX, United States
Primary Liaison:  Zhao Jing, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China


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


PS009
The Roles of the Indonesian Mix-Master, Including Contributions from Adjacent Seas
Primary Chair:  Shiqiu Peng, SCSIO South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
Co-chairs:  Robin Robertson, Xiamen university Malaysia, Xiamen, China, Zhiyu Liu, Xiamen University, State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen, China and Toshiyuki Hibiya, Univ Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Primary Liaison:  Yu-Kun Qian, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology,Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, Guangzhou, China


PS010
Turbulent mixing of the ocean surface boundary layer: Observation, Simulation, and Parameterization
Primary Chair:  Ivan B. Savelyev, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States
Co-chairs:  Gregory LeClaire Wagner, MIT, Cambridge, United States, Leah Johnson, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States and Qing Li, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States; Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ivan B. Savelyev, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, 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


AI002
Fluxes and Physical Processes Near the Air-Sea Interface: Observations and Modeling [Co-sponsored by the AMS Committee on Air-Sea Interaction]
Primary Chair:  Nathan Laxague, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
Co-chairs:  Melanie R Fewings, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, David H Richter, University of Notre Dame, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, IN, United States and David G Ortiz-Suslow, Naval Postgraduate School, Department of Meteorology, Monterey, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Nathan Laxague, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States


AI005
Mesoscale and submesoscale ocean-atmosphere interactions and influence on Earth’s climate
Primary Chair:  Larry W O'Neill, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
Co-chairs:  Hyodae Seo, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Kyla Drushka, University of Washington, Applied Physics Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States and Mark A Bourassa, Florida State Univ, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Tallahassee, FL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Larry W O'Neill, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States


AI007
The Biogeochemistry of the Upper Ocean and Air-Sea Exchange Processes
Primary Chair:  Andrew S Wozniak, University of Delaware, School of Marine Science and Policy, Lewes, DE, United States
Co-chairs:  Mariana Ribas Ribas, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Wilhelmshaven, Germany, Amanda A Frossard, University of Georgia, Department of Chemistry, Athens, GA, United States and Mohd Talib Latif, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, School of Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Bangi, Malaysia
Primary Liaison:  Andrew S Wozniak, University of Delaware, School of Marine Science and Policy, Lewes, DE, United States


AI010
Wave breaking in ocean-atmosphere exchanges
Primary Chair:  Luc Deike, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
Co-chairs:  Nicholas Pizzo1, Ana Beatriz Villas Boas1 and Fabrice Veron2, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States(2)University of Delaware, School of Marine Science and Policy, Newark, DE, United States
Primary Liaison:  Luc Deike, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States


CP001
Application of Remote Sensing to Coastal /Upwelling Regions
Primary Chair:  Jorge Vazquez, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Co-chairs:  Jose Gomez-Valdes, CICESE National Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education of Mexico, Ensenada, BJ, Mexico, Marisol Garcia-Reyes, Farallon Institute, Petaluma, CA, United States and Marouan Bouali, USP University of Sao Paulo, IOUSP, São Paulo, Brazil
Primary Liaison:  Jorge Vazquez, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States


CP003
Close-Range Remote Sensing of Nearshore Processes and Coastal Morphology
Primary Chair:  Brittany Lynn Bruder, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, Duck, NC, United States
Co-chairs:  Jonathan A Warrick, U.S. Geological Survey, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, Shawn R Harrison, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States and Rafael Almar, LEGOS, CNES, Toulouse, France
Primary Liaison:  Brittany Lynn Bruder, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, Duck, NC, United States


CP005
Extreme sea levels and coastal flood risk
Primary Chair:  Thomas Wahl, University of Central Florida, Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering & National Center for Integrated Coastal Research, Orlando, FL, United States
Co-chairs:  Sönke Dangendorf, Old Dominion University, Ocean, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Norfolk, United States; University of Siegen, Research Institute for Water and Environment, Siegen, Germany, Katherine Serafin, University of Florida, Geography, Gainesville, FL, United States and William Sweet, NOAA/NOS, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Thomas Wahl, University of Central Florida, Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering & National Center for Integrated Coastal Research, Orlando, FL, United States


CP007
Hydrodynamics and Morphodynamics of Tropical Estuaries and Deltas
Primary Chair:  Juan Felipe Paniagua-Arroyave, Universidad EAFIT, Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra, Medellin, Colombia; Florida State University, Deparment of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Tallahassee, United States
Co-chairs:  Arnoldo Valle-Levinson, University of Florida, Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States and Juan Darío Restrepo Sr, Universidad EAFIT, Earth Sciences, Medellin, Colombia
Primary Liaison:  Juan Felipe Paniagua-Arroyave, University of Florida, Department of Geological Sciences, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States


CP015
The dynamics of buoyancy-driven flows in estuaries, continental shelves and polar seas
Primary Chair:  Piero Luigi F Mazzini, Estuary & Ocean Science Center, San Francisco State University, Tiburon, CA, United States
Co-chairs:  Sarah N Giddings, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Rebecca H Jackson, Rutgers, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States and Joseph T Jurisa, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Piero Luigi F Mazzini, Estuary & Ocean Science Center, San Francisco State University, Tiburon, CA, United States


CP016
The Inner Shelf: The Impacts of Interconnected Processes
Primary Chair:  Jacqueline McSweeney, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States
Co-chairs:  Emily P Lemagie, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, Melissa Moulton, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States and Amy Frances Waterhouse, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jacqueline McSweeney, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, 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


IS004
Best practices for building a Global Ocean Observing System responsive to societal needs by linking basin-scale efforts around the globe
Primary Chair:  Martin Visbeck, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Co-chairs:  Andréane Bastien, St. Lawrence Global Observatory, Rimouski, QC, Canada, Tarron Lamont, Department of Environmental Affairs, Oceans & Coasts Research Branch, Cape Town 8012, South Africa and Isabel Sousa Pinto, University of Porto, CIIMAR, Porto, Portugal
Primary Liaison:  Frank Muller-Karger, U.S Geological Survey, Washington, CA, 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


OB032
Understanding the evolution of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: The role of climate and upwelling pattern
Primary Chair:  Onema Adojoh, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, Missouri, United States
Co-Chair:  Walaa Awad, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research, Madison, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Walaa Awad, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research, Madison, WA, United States


OD009
New information systems tools for implementing autonomous multi-source, multi-point observing systems
Primary Chair:  Ian G Brosnan, NASA Ames Research Center, Earth Science Division, Moffett Field, CA, United States
Co-chairs:  Wu-Jung Lee, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Acoustics Department, Seattle, WA, United States, Laura Rogers, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States and Robert Heitsenrether, NOAA Chesapeake, Chesapeake, VA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ian G Brosnan, NASA Ames Research Center, Earth Science Division, Moffett Field, CA, 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


PC001
Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: An on-going challenge
Primary Chair:  Meric A Srokosz, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom
Co-chairs:  Gokhan Danabasoglu, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Kathleen A Donohue, Univ Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, United States and Femke de Jong, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research & Utrecht University, Ocean Science Systems, Texel, Netherlands
Primary Liaison:  Meric A Srokosz, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom


PC009
Marine heatwaves and ocean biogeochemical extremes
Primary Chair:  Thomas L Froelicher, University of Bern, Climate and Environmental Physics, Bern, Switzerland
Co-chairs:  Hillary A Scannell1, SOFIA Darmaraki2 and Robert Schlegel2, (1)University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States(2)Dalhousie University, Oceanography, Halifax, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Thomas L Froelicher, Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ, United States


PC011
Triumphs and Disasters – coastal, marine and oceanographic research in small island/archipelago settings
Primary Chair:  Serena Blyth Lee, Griffith University, Griffith Climate Change Response Program. Griffith Centre for Coastal Management, Gold Coast, Australia
Co-Chair:  Oceana Puananilei Francis, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, United States
Primary Liaison:  Serena Blyth Lee, Griffith University, Griffith Climate Change Response Program. Griffith Centre for Coastal Management, Gold Coast, Australia


PI001
Biological coupling to physical forcing on shallow water ecosystems: using observations to reveal patterns and test mechanisms
Primary Chair:  Jesús Pineda, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Co-chairs:  Heidi L Fuchs, Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, Nathalie Reyns, University of San Diego, Environmental and Ocean Sciences, San Diego, CA, United States and James Leichter, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jesús Pineda, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States


PI006
(Sub)mesoscale physical/biogeochemical interactions
Primary Chair:  Peter Gaube, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
Co-chairs:  Daniel B Whitt, NCAR, CO, United States, Jessica Y. Luo, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics, Boulder, CO, United States and Alice Della Penna, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Peter Gaube, Applied Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington, Air-Sea Interaction and Remote Sensing, Seattle, WA, United States


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


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


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


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


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


T018
The Primary Importance of Secondary Circulation in Estuaries
Primary Presenter:  W Rockwell Geyer, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering, Woods Hole, MA, United States


T019
Turbulence Microstructure Measurements in the 21st Century
Primary Presenter:  Justine McMillan, Rockland Scientific Inc, Victoria, BC, Canada
Co-Presenter:  Matthew H Alford, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States