PS005
Multi-scale Oceanic Processes and Air-sea Interactions in Kuroshio-Oyashio Extension Region: Observations and Modeling
Session ID#: 85094
Session Description:
The Kuroshio-Oyashio extension region is rich in multi-scale oceanic processes, featured by complex fronts, vigorous jets, energetic mesoscale and submesoscale eddies, as well as intense wind-driven internal waves. It is also a hotspot for air-sea interactions, anchoring the Pacific storm track and regulating the atmospheric circulation. Despite the crucial role of the Kuroshio-Oyashio extension in climate, there are many important questions remaining to be explored for this complex system, including but not limited to interactions among mean flows, eddies and internal waves and associated energy pathways, contributions of mesoscale/submesoscale eddies to heat and material transports, air-sea interactions at mesoscales/submesoscales and their impact on ocean circulation, storm tracks, atmospheric rivers and extreme rainfall, as well as the potential influence of multi-scale air-sea interactions on sub-seasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) climate prediction. This session seeks to understand these questions by virtue of in-situ observations and high-resolution numerical modeling.
Index Terms:
4504 Air/sea interactions [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4520 Eddies and mesoscale processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4544 Internal and inertial waves [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4576 Western boundary currents [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
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
Ocean Currents and Sea Surface Height (SSH) Variability in the Kuroshio Extension from a mooring system. (637514)
Albert Joocheul Noh1,2, Young-Gyu Park1, Dong Guk Kim1 and Seongbong Seo1, (1)Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Busan, South Korea, (2)School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
The Response of Atmospheric Boundary Layer and Its clouds to Oceanic Eddies in the Kuroshio Extension: Observations and Simulations (637724)
Suping Zhang1, Yuxi Jiang1, Qian Wang1, Shang-Ping Xie1,2 and Joel R Norris2, (1)Ocean University of China, Physical Oceanography Laboratory/CIMST & Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction and Climate Laboratory, Qingdao, China, (2)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Challenges of Measuring Abyssal Temperature and Salinity at the Kuroshio Extension Observatory (639974)
Nathan D Anderson, JISAO/University of Washington and NOAA/PMEL, WA, United States, Kathleen A Donohue, Univ Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, United States, Makio C Honda, JAMSTEC, Kanagawa, Japan, Meghan F Cronin, NOAA PMEL, Seattle, WA, United States and Dongxiao Zhang, JISAO/University of Washington and NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA, United States
Dynamical Links between the Decadal Variability of the Oyashio and Kuroshio Extensions (641936)
Shuiming Chen, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, Bo Qiu, Univ Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States and Niklas Schneider, Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States
Mesoscale air-sea interaction and its role in eddy energy dissipation in the Kuroshio Extension (642200)
Haiyuan Yang1, Ping Chang2, Bo Qiu3, Lixin Wu4 and Zhaohui Chen4, (1)Physical Oceanography Laboratory, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China, (2)Texas A & M Univ, College Station, TX, United States, (3)Univ Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (4)Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
The fate of storm-generated near-inertial waves in the Kuroshio-Oyashio Confluence (647159)
Sebastian Essink, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, Ren-Chieh Lien, Applied Physics Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States and Eric L Kunze, NorthWest Research Associates, Redmond, WA, United States
Effect of Mesoscale SSTs on Atmospheric Rivers and Heavy Rain Along the West Coast of North America at Subseasonal Time Scales (647871)
Xue LIU, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, Ping Chang, Texas A & M Univ, College Station, TX, United States and Xiaohui Ma, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
Impact of Kuroshio Front and Eddies on Atmospheric Rivers in the North Pacific at Seasonal Time Scale (649305)
Xiaohui Ma, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China, Xue LIU, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, Ping Chang, Texas A & M Univ, College Station, TX, United States and Yinglai Jia, Ocean University of China, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Qingdao, China
Intensification of future North Pacific extreme sea level pressure events and their oceanic response in a changing climate. (650408)
Katerina Giamalaki1, Claudie Beaulieu1,2, Stephanie Henson3, Adrian Martin4 and Davide Faranda5, (1)University of Southampton, Ocean and Earth Science, Southampton, United Kingdom, (2)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (3)National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom, (4)National Oceanography Center, Southampton, United Kingdom, (5)LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France
Decadal variability of nutrients and biomass in the Kuroshio Extension (650480)
Jinfeng Ma, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Beijing, China, Pengfei Lin, IAP,CAS, Beijing, China and Fei Chai, Second Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, State Key Laboratory of Satellite Ocean Environment Dynamics, Hangzhou, China
Forecasting Remote Atmospheric Responses to Decadal Kuroshio Transitions: Stable vs Unstable States (652454)
Leo Siqueira1, Ben P Kirtman2 and Lucas Cardoso Laurindo1, (1)University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, (2)University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Miami, FL, United States
Glider observation of an eastward moving anticyclonic eddy in the western North Pacific (653152)
Katsuya Toyama, Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tsukuba, Japan, Hisashi Ono, Meteorological Research Institute, Japan, Naohiro Kosugi, Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan, Hiroyuki Tsujino, Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan and Masao Ishii, Meteorological Research Institute, Ibaraki, Japan
Surface Heat Flux Induced by Mesoscale Eddies Cools the Western Boundary Current Extensions (656933)
Xuan Shan1, Zhao Jing1, Bolan Gan1, Lixin Wu1, Ping Chang2, Xiaohui Ma1, Zhaohui Chen1, Haiyuan Yang3 and Shengpeng Wang4, (1)Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China, (2)Texas A & M Univ, College Station, TX, United States, (3)Physical Oceanography Laboratory, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China, (4)Ocean University of China, China
