Session 11A |
| | Air-Sea Interaction Over Eddies and Fronts (contributions from the Western Boundary Current Working Group) |
| | Cochairs: Michael A. Alexander, NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO; R. Justin Small, Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS
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| 4:00 PM | 11A.1 | Ocean-atmosphere Coupling over Mid-latitude Ocean Fronts 
W. Timothy Liu, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and X. Xie and P. P. Niiler |
| 4:15 PM | 11A.2 | Atmospheric response to the SST front associated with the Agulhas Return Current
Qingtao Song, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; and D. Chelton and S. Esbensen |
| 4:30 PM | 11A.3 | Air-sea interactions in the Gulf Stream region from long-term in-situ observations
Sebastien P. Bigorre, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA; and R. A. Weller |
| 4:45 PM | 11A.4 | Air-sea heat exchanges characteristic to a prominent midlatitude oceanic front in the South Indian Ocean as simulated in a high-resolution coupled GCM
Masami Nonaka, JAMSTEC, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan; and H. Nakamura, B. Taguchi, N. Komori, A. Kuwano-Yoshida, and K. Takaya |
| 5:00 PM | 11A.5 | Damping of Tropical Instability Waves caused by the action of surface currents on stress
R. Justin Small, Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS; and K. Richards, S. P. Xie, P. Dutrieux, and T. Miyama |
| 5:15 PM | 11A.6 | Mesoscale air-sea interaction and feedback in the western Arabian Sea
Hyodae Seo, IPRC/Univ. Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and R. Murtugudde, M. Jochum, and A. J. Miller |