Description:

The air-sea interface marks the literal boundary between the atmosphere and ocean that is subject to a myriad of physical processes converging across a thousand-fold density jump. While the physics of the domain are inherently fine scale, their implications and consequences span the local to global-scales and thus are important for our overall conception of the coupled atmosphere-ocean system. This session will feature advances in our ability to measure, model, and conceptualize the complex physics at the interface and the implications these processes have on air-sea coupled processes. We expect contributions to this session to mark the intersection of both upper ocean and lower atmospheric physical processes. Contributions that utilize emerging technologies, showcase novel applications, or entrain multiple disciplines are highly encouraged. Studies featuring unique dataset or highlighting challenging physical problems are welcome.

Observations and Modeling of Air-Sea Coupling and Exchange: recent advances in measurement, application, and coupled modeling II

The flux of energy and material across the air-sea interface couples the global atmosphere-ocean system. Understanding this exchange and the coupling mechanisms is critical to climate and environmental monitoring, as well as environmental prediction on local, synoptic, and global scales. Fundamentally, the study of air-sea fluxes is rooted in the experimental study of biogeochemical and physical processes at the molecular interface between air and water. This session will provide a forum for updating the community on the cutting edge of air-sea flux and gas exchange research, with a particular interest in contributions from recent or up-coming field campaigns (e.g. ATOMIC/EUREC4A, C-FOG, CLASI, MISO-BoB, YMC/PISTON, etc.). Numerical studies of air-sea interaction necessarily translate the information garnered from finite and disparate measurements into a broader context. We encourage submissions on the recent advances in air-sea coupled modeling. Our session aims to be broad in methodology and perspective, but with a focus on the air-sea coupling and exchange processes, studies featuring experimental (laboratory or field), numerical, and theoretical work are welcomed.