PL004
Ocean salinity in support of scientific and environmental demands
Session ID#: 84956
Session Description:
The session welcomes contributions highlighting the importance of salinity in oceanographic studies and environmental applications. Potential topics include the role of salinity in enhancing our knowledge of Earth system interaction; linkages between the ocean, atmosphere, cryosphere, and land, including hydrological and biogeochemical cycles; ocean circulation; and climate variability and predictability. We invite a broad range of studies that utilize the current salinity observing system consisting of in situ and satellite platforms, as well estimates from data assimilation products and climate model projections. The joint use of salinity and other physical, biological, and chemical variables that stimulate the collaboration between different communities is appreciated. Studies highlighting the utility of salinity measurements in environmental assessments, operational oceanography and forecasts, and the development of science-informed decisions are particularly encouraged.
Index Terms:
1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4217 Coastal processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4273 Physical and biogeochemical interactions [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4504 Air/sea interactions [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
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
Seasonal and Interannual variability of freshwater transport at River-Dominated Ocean Margin Systems from 1992-2018: Results from the global ECCO2 with real-time discharge (641992)
Yang Feng, SCSIO South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China; SCSIO,CAS, Guangzhou, China, Dimitris Menemenlis, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Huijie Xue, University of Maine, United States, Zhiqiang LIU, Southern University of Science and Technology, Department of Ocean Science and Engineering, Shenzhen, China and Peng Xiu, SCSIO South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Acaademy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
Improved SMAP Salinity Retrievals in Coastal Areas and Near the Sea-Ice Edge (642499)
Thomas Meissner1, Frank J Wentz1, Andrew Manaster1, Jorge Vazquez2, Semyon Grodsky3 and Hsun-Ying Kao4, (1)Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (4)Earth and Space Research, Seattle, WA, United States
Continental and sea ice melting signature in Arctic sea surface salinity (643588)
Justino Martínez1, Carolina Gabarró2, Antonio Turiel1, Joaquim Ballabrera-Poy1, Estrella Olmedo2, Cristina González-Haro1, Veronica Gonzalez-Gambau2, Roshin P. Raj3, Laurent Bertino3, Jiping Xie3, Rafael Catany4 and Manuel Arias4, (1)Institute of Marine Sciences, CSIC, Physical and Technological Oceanography, Barcelona, Spain, (2)Barcelona Expert Center, Institute of Marine Sciences, CSIC, Physical and Technological Oceanography, Barcelona, Spain, (3)Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Bergen, Norway, (4)Argans Ltd., Plymouth, United Kingdom
Sea surface salinity subfootprint variability from a global high-resolution model (643616)
Frederick Bingham1, Joseph Matthew D'Addezio2, Severine Fournier3, Hong Zhang3 and Karly Ulfsax4, (1)University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, United States, (2)U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Ocean Dynamics and Prediction, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, United States
Impact of Satellite Sea Surface Salinity Observations on ENSO Predictions from the New NASA/GMAO Seasonal Forecast System (643827)
Eric C Hackert, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Robin M Kovach, NASA, GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Andrea Molod, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Anna Borovikov, Sugar Land, TX, United States and Jelena Marshak, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, GMAO, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Assessing the impacts of tropical rainfall on near-surface salinity and turbulence using observations from the SPURS-2 experiment and a 1-D forced model (643963)
Suneil Iyer, University of Washington Seattle Campus, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States; Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States and Kyla Drushka, University of Washington, Applied Physics Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States
Variations in Salinity over the Global Ocean from Multiple Gridded Argo Products (644288)
Chao Liu1, Xinfeng Liang1, Don P Chambers2 and Rui M Ponte3, (1)University of Delaware, School of Marine Science and Policy, Lewes, DE, United States, (2)University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, St. Petersburg, FL, United States, (3)Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Lexington, MA, United States
Mesoscale eddies in satellite observations of SSS and inferred eddy freshwater transports (644679)
Oleg Melnichenko1, Peter W Hacker2 and Vasco Müller1, (1)University of Hawaii at Manoa, IPRC, Honolulu, HI, United States, (2)HIGP, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
An Assessment Of The SMOS Sea Surface Salinity Variability In The Arctic Ocean. (645646)
Alexandre Supply, Sorbonne Université, LOCEAN, Paris Cedex 05, France, Jacqueline Boutin, CNRS, LOCEAN/Sorbonne Université, Paris, France, Jean-Luc Vergely, ACRI-st, Sophia-Antipolis, France, Nicolas Kolodziejczyk, UBO, CNRS, IRD, Ifremer, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Physique et Spatiale, Plouzané, France, Plouzane, France, Gilles P Reverdin, Sorbonne Université - CNRS/IRD/MNHN, LOCEAN, Paris, France and Anastasia Tarasenko, AARI/LOPS, Russia
Coastal Upwelling Limitation by Salinity-Driven Onshore Geostrophic Flow in the Northern Gulf of Guinea (646404)
Gael Alory, Observatory Midi-Pyrenees, LEGOS, Toulouse, France, Dorelle P Loemba, CIPMA/UAC, Cotonou, Benin, Casimir DA-Allada, UNSTIM/CIPMA/IRHOB, Abomey, Benin, Sandrine Djakoure, LAPA-MF/UFHB, Abidjan, Côte D'ivoire, Isabelle Dadou, LEGOS, Toulouse Cedex 9, France and Julien Jouanno, Observatory Midi-Pyrenees, Toulouse, France
Mean Structure of the Ocean surface Haline wake left by Tropical Cyclones as observed by SMOS and SMAP (647061)
Reul Nicolas, IFREMER, Plouzané, France, Bertrand Chapron, IFREMER, Univ. Brest, CNRS, IRD, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Physique et Spatiale, Brest, France, Semyon Grodsky, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, Sebastien Guimbard, OceanScope, France, Vladimir Kudryavtsev, Russian State Hydrometeorological University, Russia, Gregory R Foltz, NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL, United States and Karthik Balaguru, PNNL, Marine Sciences Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States
2019 Arctic Saildrone field campaign: measurements of sea surface salinity and temperature for validation of satellite retrievals (647229)
Chelle L Gentemann1, Peter J Minnett2, Michael Steele3, Jorge Vazquez4, Wenquing Tang5, Jacob Hoyer6, Sotirios Skarpalezos6, Chidong Zhang7, Dongxiao Zhang8 and Richard Jenkins9, (1)Earth and Space Research, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)University of Miami, RSMAS, Department of Ocean Sciences, Miami, FL, United States, (3)Univ Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (6)Danish Meteorological Institute, København Ø, Denmark, (7)NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, United States, (8)JISAO/University of Washington and NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA, United States, (9)Saildrone Inc, Alameda, CA, United States
A Gridded Upper-Ocean Stratification Dataset for the Northwestern Tropical Atlantic based on Satellite Observations and a Statistical Model: Feasibility and Potential (647267)
Da Nguyen Dac1,2, Gregory R Foltz2 and Karthik Balaguru3, (1)University of Miami/CIMAS, Miami, FL, United States, (2)NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL, United States, (3)PNNL, Marine Sciences Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States
A Novel Absolute Salinity Sensor for Ocean Science (647453)
Jason Kapit, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Raymond W Schmitt, Woods Hole Oceanographic Insti, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Satellite Sea-surface Density and Spiciness (647698)
Eric J Bayler, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD, United States, James R Reagan, ESSIC - University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States and Tim Boyer, NOAA/National Oceanographic Data Center, Washington, DC, United States
Remote Sensing Observations of Sea Surface Salinity Variability in the South China Sea (647730)
Daling Li Yi, International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, CA, United States, Oleg Melnichenko, University of Hawaii at Manoa, IPRC, Honolulu, HI, United States, Peter W Hacker, HIGP, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States and James T Potemra, Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States
Evaluation and Intercomparison of SMOS, Aquarius and SMAP Sea Surface Salinity Products in the Arctic Ocean (648508)
Severine Fournier, JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, Tong Lee, JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States, Wenqing Tang, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Michael Steele, Univ Washington, Seattle, WA, United States and Estrella Olmedo, Barcelona Expert Center, Institute of Marine Sciences, CSIC, Physical and Technological Oceanography, Barcelona, Spain
Interannual to Decadal Prediction of Terrestrial Precipitation Using Sea Surface Salinity as a Precursor - Case Study of Australian Rainfall (649250)
Saurabh Rathore1, Nathaniel L. Bindoff2, Caroline Ummenhofer3, Helen Elizabeth Phillips2 and Ming Feng4, (1)Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Taroona, TAS, Australia, (2)University of Tasmania, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Hobart, TAS, Australia, (3)WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (4)CSIRO, Oceans and Atmosphere, Crawley, WA, Australia
3D Dynamics of the Freshwater Lenses Produced by Convective Rain and River Runoff in the Near-Surface Layer of the Ocean (649360)
Alexander Soloviev1, Breanna Vanderplow2 and Cayla Dean2, (1)Nova Southeastern University, Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography, Dania Beach, FL, United States, (2)Nova Southeastern University, Dania Beach, FL, United States
A new perspective of the 2014/15 failed el Niño as seen from ocean Salinity (649406)
Jianwei Chi1,2, Yan DU3, Yuhong Zhang4, Xunwei Nie5, Ping Shi6 and Tangdong Qu1, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, (3)South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, Guangzhou, China, (4)SCSIO South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Acaademy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, (5)Institute of Oceanology, CAS, Qingdao, China, (6)So China Sea Inst Oceanology, Guangzhou, China
Salt Budget in the Arabian Gulf and Effects of Water Desalination (650295)
Filipe Vieira1, Edmo J Campos2,3, Georgenes Cavalcante4,5, Mohamed Abouleish1, Sakib Shahriar6 and Reem Mohamed1, (1)College of Arts and Sciences of the American University of Sharjah, Biology, Chemistry and Environmental Sciences, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, (2)USP University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, (3)College of Arts and Science of the American University of Sharjah, Biology, Chemistry and Environmental Sciences, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, (4)College of Arts and Science of the American University of Sharjah, Department of Biological, Chemistry and Environmental Sciences, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, (5)Instituto de Ciências Atmosféricas, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, Brazil, (6)College of Engineering American University of Sharjah, Computer Engineering, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Spreading and vertical structure of the Persian Gulf and Red Sea outflows in the northwestern Indian Ocean (653140)
Pierre L'Hegaret1, Charly de Marez1, Mathieu Morvan2, Thomas Meunier3 and Xavier J Carton4, (1)Laboratoire d'Océanographie Physique et Spatiale, Plouzané, France, (2)Laboratoire d'Océanographie Physique et Spatiale, France, (3)CICESE, Physical Oceanography, Ensenada, BJ, Mexico, (4)Laboratoire de Physique des Océans, Brest, France
Influence of Non-seasonal River Discharge on the Ocean (653358)
Hrishikesh Arvind Chandanpurkar, Xiaochun Wang, Tong Lee, Hong Zhang, Ian G Fenty, Severine Fournier, Ichiro Fukumori, Dimitris Menemenlis, John T Reager II, Ou Wang and John R Worden, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Impacts of the hydrological cycle on the subpolar North Atlantic upper ocean salinity variability (653847)
James R Reagan1,2, Dan Seidov2 and Tim Boyer2, (1)ESSIC - University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI-MD, Silver Spring, MD, United States
A Joint ESA-NASA Platform for Satellite Salinity Validation and Exploitation (654731)
Sebastien Guimbard1, Reul Nicolas2, Roberto Sabia3, Sylvain Herlédan4, Ziad El Khoury Hanna4, Fabrice Collard5, Susanne Mecklenburg6, Henri Laur7, Tong Lee8, Julian J Schanze9 and Nadya Vinogradova Shiffer10, (1)OceanScope, France, (2)Ifremer, La Seyne sur Mer, CDX, France, (3)Telespazio-Vega for European Space Agency, Frascati, Italy, (4)Oceandatalab, France, (5)OceanDataLab, Plouzané, France, (6)European Space Agency, Italy, (7)ESA, Frascati, Italy, (8)JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States, (9)Earth and Space Research, Seattle, WA, United States, (10)NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
Eastern Mediterranean salinity variation observed by SMAP (654784)
Semyon Grodsky1, Nicolas Reul2, Abderruhim Bentamy2, Douglas C Vandemark3 and Sebastien Guimbard4, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)IFREMER, Plouzané, France, (3)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (4)OceanScope, France
High Resolution Rain Impact Model (HiRIM): An Oceanic Salinity Stratification Study (657312)
Maria Marta Jacob, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Facultad de Matematica, Astronomia y Fisica, Cordoba, Argentina, Kyla Drushka, University of Washington, Applied Physics Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States, William Asher, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States and W. Linwood Jones, University of Central Florida, Central Florida Remote Sensing Laboratory, Orlando, FL, United States
Salinity Physics in the ITCZ - Modelling of Freshwater Lenses Constrained by In Situ Observations (657919)
Julian J Schanze1, Scott R Springer2, Elizabeth Jennifer Thompson3, Gary S E Lagerloef2 and Raymond W Schmitt4, (1)Earth and Space Research, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)Earth & Space Research, Seattle, WA, United States, (3)NOAA ESRL, Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Woods Hole Oceanographic Insti, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States
