Meeting Presentations
Ocean Sciences Meeting 2024
The Ocean Sciences Meeting (OSM) is the flagship conference for the ocean sciences and the larger ocean-connected community. The meeting welcomes a diverse community of scientists, students, journalists, policymakers, educators and organizations who are working toward a world where our global collaborations and partnerships can carry us into a sustainable future.
The Ocean Sciences Meeting is an Endorsed Decade Action program with the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.
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A Data-Driven Approach for a Submesoscale Parameterization
Bodner, A.S., Balwada, D., and Zanna, L. Here we present a data-driven approach for the submesoscale parameterization, utilizing information from the ultra-high-resolution submesoscale-permitting MITgcm-llc4320 simulation (LLC4320) ... MORE »▲
A New Observation-Based Water Mass Transformation Benchmark for the North Atlantic and its Application to Model-Observation Comparison
Low, T., Maroon, E., and Yeager, S.G. Global climate models, such as the Community Earth System Model version 2 (CESM2), have long struggled with their representation of North Atlantic currents ... MORE »▲
Assessing the Potential of SMART Subsea Cables for Monitoring Essential Ocean Variables
Renninger-Rojas , K., Trossman, D.S., Howe, B.M., Goldberg, M., Heimbach, P., and Harrison, C.S. Observations of the deepest depths of the ocean remain relatively sparse ... MORE »▲
Characterising Submesoscale Statistics Globally in a High-Resolution Model using Pangeo Tools
Nicholas, T., Balwada, D., Jones, S., Smith, K.S., and Abernathey, R. Characterising submesoscale dynamics globally requires extremely high resolution model runs ... MORE »▲
Decadal-scale evolution of upwelling plumes and productivity from Greenland's largest glacier using downscaled ocean models and observations
Wood, M., Carroll, D., Fenty, I.G., and Khazendar, A. Over the past several decades, increasing Arctic air temperatures have caused extensive melt on the surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet ... MORE »▲
Deep Ocean Variability Forced by ENSO Cycles in the Eastern South Pacific
Torres, M., Pizarro, O., Dewitte, B., and Oerder, V. The deep ocean circulation is a key component of the Earth climate system, it contributes to the distribution and transport of heat, greenhouse gases and dissolved substances that are relevant to the life in the oceans ... MORE »▲
Democratize the Data: A New Way to Analyze Ocean Models
Haine, T.W. and HIll, C.N. This Town Hall discusses the issues, challenges, and opportunities in analyzing massive ocean circulation model solutions ... MORE »▲
Detections of Submesoscale Coherent Vortices in the Seasonally Sea Ice-Covered Southern Ocean
Kosty, J., Zhao, K., McCoy, D., and Stewart, A. In this study, we present the discovery of eddies in the Southern Ocean's seasonally sea ice-covered region using the Marine Mammals Exploring the Oceans Pole to Pole (MEOP) data set ... MORE »▲
Determining dominant atmospheric drivers of ocean variability using ocean model adjoints with an application to the North Atlantic
Amrhein, D.E., Stephenson, D., and Thompson, L. This work describes and applies a novel inverse framework for identifying dominant atmospheric drivers of stochastic ocean variability ... MORE »▲
Development of Observing Quantitative Assessment Capabilities for Ocean Applications at NOAA
Cucurull, L., Bayler, E.J., and Menemenlis, D. The NOAA Quantitative Observing System Assessment Program (QOSAP) was established in 2014 to address NOAA's capability gap for conducting quantitative assessments for proposed changes to the global observing system ... MORE »▲
Dynamical Decomposition of Multiscale Oceanic Motions
Liu, Z., Wang, C., and Lin, H. To date, large uncertainties remain in our quantitative understanding of the mechanical energy transfers in the world ocean characterized by multiscale and multi-regime motions ... MORE »▲
Enki: Reconstructing Masked Pixels in Sea Surface Temperature with a Large Language Model
Prochaska, J.X., Agabin, A., Cornillon, P., and Buckingham, C. We will present Enki, a large language model created to reconstruct masked pixels (e ... MORE »▲
Examining the Temporal Sensitivity of Mixed Layer Salinity Budget Around the Global Ocean With Unsupervised Machine Learning
Liu, C. and Liang, X. The mixed layer salinity (MLS) budget and its variability is essential for understanding air-sea freshwater exchange and its implication for the global hydrological cycle ... MORE »▲
Extraction of the Ocean Circulation's Contribution to the Magnetic Field and Its Physical Oceanographic Applications
Trossman, D.S., and Tyler, R. Oceanic tidal constituents (namely, M2) and ocean conductivity content (OCC) extracted from electromagnetic (EM) field data (including satellite, land, seafloor, ocean, and airborne magnetometers) have been shown to have strong potential for monitoring global ocean heat content (OHC), which reflect ... MORE »▲
First look at computing spectral kinetic energy cascades from SWOT
Arbic, B.K., Menemenlis, D., and Wang, J. In this study, we initiate spectral kinetic energy cascade analysis using SWOT data, which is combined with AVISO products and numerical simulations, using our approach established by Arbic et al ... MORE »▲
Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature's 0.09 degree, level 4, globally gridded dataset (GHRSST-MWIR) comparison to the Arctic Great Rivers Observatory (Ar-GRO) Yukon River volumetric discharge dataset in the Gulf of Alaska from 2003-2020, and modelling outputs from the 'Estimating the State and Climate of the Ocean (ECCO)' model.
Spratt, R.M., and Vazquez, J. In this study, we illustrate the versatility of the Group for High Resolutio ... MORE »▲
Icebergs, Right Ahead?: Implications for Future Ice Shelf-Ocean Interactions in the Changing Icescape Environment at West Ice Shelf, East Antarctica
Walker, C.C., Neumann, T., Averbuch, G., and Zhang, W.G. West Ice Shelf (WIS) last calved a tabular iceberg, D-15, in 1992 ... MORE »▲
Identification of Forcing Mechanisms Driving Interannual Sea Level Variations along the US West Coast
Fenty, I.G., Wang, O., Lee, T., and Fukumori, I. The US West Coast is subject to extreme sea level variations on interannual timescales that can exceed the long-term sea level rise trend by an order of magnitude or more ... MORE »▲
Internal-Wave Dissipation Mechanisms and Vertical Structure in a High-Resolution Regional Ocean Model
Skitka, J., Arbic, B.K., Ma, Y., Momeni, K., Peltier, W.R., Menemenlis, D., Pan, Y., and Thakur, R. Vertical profiles of internal-wave (IW) dissipation are diagnosed in a regional ocean model and compared against observations ... MORE »▲
Leading Dynamical Processes of Global Marine Heatwaves
Sala, J., Giglio, D., and Capotondi, A. Marine heatwaves (MHWs) have emerged as a very active area of research due to the devastating impacts of these events on marine ecosystems across different trophic levels ... MORE »▲
Mapping internal tides using LLC4320 and SWOT measurements in the Southern Ocean
Li, Y., Mazloff, M.R., and Gille, S.T. Throughout the global ocean, internal tides play a key role in driving ocean mixing, influencing the ocean general circulation and climate ... MORE »▲
Modelling the carbon cycle across the Arctic land-ocean continuum: a case study of the Southeastern Beaufort Sea
Bertin, C., Carroll, D., Menemenlis, D., Miller, C.E., Dutkiewicz, S., Manizza, M., Matsuoka, A., Zhang, H. and Le Fouest, V. Five of the world's largest rivers discharge into the Arctic Ocean (AO), conveying large amounts of terrestrial matter into its coastal waters ... MORE »▲
Multidecadal variations of the Arctic Ocean CO2 uptake inferred from models and data products
Manizza, M., Carroll, D., Menemenlis, D., Dutkiewicz, S., Savelli, R., Zhang, H., Landschützer, P., Yasunaka, S., and Miller, C.E. Climate change has greatly impacted sea-ice in the Arctic Ocean (AO), causing an evident reduction in the last decades ... MORE »▲
Ocean Eddy Splitting and the Associated Vertical Transport: Insights from Numerical Modeling
Wu, W., and Mahadevan, A. Despite its prevalence in the global ocean, eddy splitting has not previously been associated with the vertical transport of biogeochemical tracers at submesoscales ... MORE »▲
Ongoing efforts towards an Ocean Observing System Simulation Experiment (OSSE) capability at NOAA
Hossen, J., Cucurull, L., Le Hanaff, M., Trossman, D., Bayler, E.J., and Menemenlis, D. In preparation for developing a NOAA ocean observing system simulation experiment (OSSE) capability, we conducted several ocean observing system experiments (OSEs), which use available observations ... MORE »▲
Passive Ocean Color Retrievals of Zooplankton Biomass and Diel Vertical Migration via Extrapolation of the Particle Size Distribution
Kostadinov, T.S., Taniguchi, D., Carroll, D., Behrenfeld, M., Meiburg, E.H., and Wilhelmus, M.M. The particle size distribution (PSD) is a key property of marine ecosystems that links ocean optics and ocean ecology and biogeochemistry ... MORE »▲
Reconstructing the spatiotemporal evolution of the global interior ocean's anthropogenic carbon sink using deep learning
Ehman, T., Mackay, N.S., and Watson, A.J. The oceans play a mitigating role in climate change by absorbing approximately 25% of the anthropogenic carbon that is released ... MORE »▲
Regional Earth Energy Imbalance and Marine Heat Waves in the Sunlit Ocean Layer
Forget, G. There is clear evidence that upper ocean layers are already showing effects of climate change ... MORE »▲
Response of Submesoscale Variability Under Sea Ice to Wind Bursts and Mesoscale Strain
Manucharyan, G.E., Shrestha, K., and Thompson, A.F. Submesoscale variability in the oceanic mixed layer under sea ice can be energetic in marginal ice zones, near large sea ice floes, near leads, or under packed winter sea ice, especially when horizontal density gradients are sufficiently strong to support the development of mixed layer instabilities ... MORE »▲
Sea Level Variability Prediction and Attribution Using the ECCO Ocean State Estimation Framework
Delman, A.S., Lee, T., Wang, O., Frederikse, T., Collini, R., Fukumori, I., Becker, E.J., and Kirtman, B.P. Sea level (SL) variability on synoptic-to-decadal timescales is driven mostly by changing inputs at the ocean surface, but ocean dynamics may convey the impact of these forcings across large distances in space and time ... MORE »▲
Seasonal Features and Potential Mechanisms of Submesoscale Processes in the Southern Bay of Bengal
Cheng, X. This study investigates the seasonal features and generation mechanisms of submesoscale processes (SMPs) in the southern Bay of Bengal (BoB) during 2011/12, based on the output of a high-resolution model, LLC4320 (latitude-longitude-polar cap) ... MORE »▲
Seasonal Forecasting of U.S. East Coast Sea Level Anomalies: Advantages Using a Global Simulation of Ocean-Dynamic Persistence
Feng, X., Widlansky, M.J., Lee, T., Wang, O., Balmaseda, M.A., and Zuo, H. Accurate seasonal sea level forecasts are still a challenge in many locations for ocean forecasting systems ... MORE »▲
Seasonal Hydrography and Unique Plume Signatures from Moorings at Northwest Greenland Glacier Fronts
Zahn, M., Laidre, K.L., Simon, K., Stafford, K., Wood, M., Willis, J.K., Phillips, E.M., and Fenty, I.G. Greenland's marine-terminating glaciers connect the ice sheet to the ocean and provide a critical boundary where heat, freshwater, and nutrient exchanges take place ... MORE »▲
Separation of Balanced and Unbalanced Flow in the California Current System: Comparison of SWOT, High-Frequency Radar, and Model Output
Kachelein, L., and Wang, J. The unprecedented resolution of SWOT sea surface height anomaly (SSHA) data reveals features at length scales at which internal gravity wave motions become important ... MORE »▲
Simulated Sea Surface Salinity Data from a 1/48o Ocean Model
Bingham, F., Fournier, S., Brodnitz, S.K., Hayashi, A., Kuusela, M., Westbrook, E., Ulfsax, K., González-Haro, C., and Gonzalez-Gambau, V. . In order to study the validation process for sea surface salinity (SSS) we have generated a year (November 2011-October 2012) of simulated satellite and in situ "ground truth" data ... MORE »▲
Sub-mesoscale Wind-Front Interactions and Their Impact on Ocean Vertical Velocities
Bai, Y., Thompson, A.F., Villas Boas, A.B., Klein, P., Torres, H.S., Rodriguez, E., Wineteer, A.G., and Menemenlis, D. Interactions between coherent meso- and sub-mesoscale surface ocean temperature and velocity structures induce wind stress anomalies ... MORE »▲
Temperature and salinity stratification and the subpolar North Atlantic overturning
Firing, Y.L., Evans, D.G., and Johnson, H.L. The diapycnal overturning of the subpolar North Atlantic (SPNA) depends on cooling by air-sea fluxes overcoming the concurrent freshening to densify inflowing Atlantic Water ... MORE »▲
The origin and fate of Bering Strait throughflow
Yang, X., and Cessi, P. Bering Strait is the only oceanic connection between the Pacific and Arctic-Atlantic Oceans ... MORE »▲
The variability of Atlantic-origin water and impacts on Western Greenland
Otani, W., Nakayama, Y., Wood, M., Fenty, I.G., and Mensah, V. The North Atlantic subpolar gyre carries Atlantic Water (AW) towards the margins of western Greenland, which intrudes into fjords and contributes to the recent retreat and acceleration of Greenland Glaciers ... MORE »▲
Topography Effects on the Seasonal Variability of Ocean Bottom Pressure in the North Pacific Ocean and North Atlantic Ocean
Chen, L., Yang, J., and Wu, L. Ocean bottom pressure pB is an important oceanic variable that is dynamically related to the abyssal ocean circulation through geostrophy ... MORE »▲
Understanding the Generation and Dynamics of Internal Tides in the Bay of Bengal using ECCO salinity and observations
Bulusu, S. Internal Waves (IWs) are prominent features that undulate in the subsurface ocean in regions of well-defined density stratification ... MORE »▲
Using Data-Constrained Modeling to Examine the Drivers of Central Labrador Sea Oxygen Variability
Moseley, L., Atamanchuk, D., Koelling, J., McKinley, G.A., and Wallace, D. The subpolar region of the North Atlantic Ocean plays an important role in determining the oxygen inventory of the global deep ocean ... MORE »▲
Variability and Pathways of Subantarctic Mode Water Property Anomalies in the South Pacific
Cerovecki, I., and Haumann, A. Subantarctic Mode Water (SAMW) subduction represents one of the main processes governing the transport of properties from the surface mixed layer, where this water mass is in contact with the atmosphere, into the ocean interior ... MORE »▲