89th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting

Session 11A: Air-Sea Interaction Over Eddies and Fronts (contributions from the Western Boundary Current Working Group)

Wednesday, 14 January 2009: 4:00 PM-5:30 PM
Room 128A (Phoenix Convention Center)
Cochairs:  Michael A. Alexander, NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory and R. Justin Small, Naval Research Laboratory
Papers:
  4:00 PM
Ocean-atmosphere Coupling over Mid-latitude Ocean Fronts
W. Timothy Liu, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and X. Xie and P. P. Niiler

  4:15 PM
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
  4:45 PM
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
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
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