Oceanographic Sampling in VOCALS REx Bob Weller

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Oceanographic Sampling in VOCALS REx Bob Weller

The ocean setting - the Southeast Pacific (SEP) Persistent trade winds, coastal upwelling. Trade winds - directionally steady but vary in speed, with periods of low winds Low level of synoptic weather systems Peru/Chile Current flowing north and northwest.

The ocean setting A strongly evaporative, moderately warmed region producing temperate, salty surface water. Fresher water moving in below the surface layer. Below that a more saline layer and a second salinity minimum. Coastal upwelling. Westward propagating eddies originating from coast. VOCALS’ goal of understanding controls on SST sets a focus on the surface layer VOCALS partners (Chile,Peru, France - PRIMO, SOLAS) interest is on the oxygen minimum layer below 20°S, 85°W temperature salinity

Mixed layer depths 0.1, 0.5, 1.0 delta T from SST October-November: Deep (150 m), cool layer transitioning to warm, shallow (40 m) layer

~1 cm/sec ~ 3 cm/sec In upper thermocline, 1-2 cm/sec annual mean Flows to NW; low rates of advection. Long residence time? Eddy variability superimposed on the mean. 3 year displacement at 10 m depth, a mean of ~ 3 cm/sec 3 year displacement at 350 m depth, a mean of ~ 1 cm/sec

Steady Trade Winds to the NW, wind-driven surface flow to the Southwest 130 m 10 m – 130 m 20 m – 130 m Distance (km) One-year displacements or progressive vector diagrams of velocities at 10 and 20 m relative to that at 130 m, as well as for the velocity at 130 m. The surface water moves offshore under the influence of the wind. ~5 cm s -1 surface layer relative to thermocline.

Ekman Advection along SST gradients QuikScat winds and TMI SST fields used to estimate the advective component of heat flux due to Ekman transport across SST gradients. Calculation done for weekly fields and then combined to get an annual average. The steadiness of the winds implies that the mean of the high-frequency product is close to the product of the means. Color Contours: Annually averaged component of the heat flux due to advection by Ekman transport Gray Contours: Annually averages SST Arrows: Annually averaged Ekman transport Ekman Advection = 6 +/- 5 W/m 2

Weller Surface forcing from buoy driving a one-dimensional ocean model (PWP) produces a surface layer that is too warm and too salty. )

Additional cooling and freshening is needed. Possible mechanisms: - Ekman (wind-driven surface layer) transport offshore of coastal water - Open ocean downwelling/upwelling (Ekman pumping) - Mixing with low saline water below - Geostrophic currents (advection) - Eddy processes, including horizontal transport enhanced vertical mixing Integrated Heat Content Equation Surface FluxAdvectionEkman Pumping Eddy Flux Divergence Vertical Diffusivity Remote as well as local forcing is possible, possible links to ENSO variability. - Kelvin waves->coastal waves-> Rossby waves - Displacement of S Pacific high pressure center

Altimetric satellites show westward propagating eddies are typical of the region. S-P Xie Propagation ~ 5 cm s -1 Size ~ 4° or 440 km Residence time ~ 100 days

Eddies – biology and clouds Long-lived eddies: Transport or enhancement of nutrients Enhanced local productivity Change in upper ocean optical properties Biogenic aerosols – DMS Local SST and current signature (impacting fluxes via delta U and delta T)

Fast time scales to cope with as well Diurnal – 24 hours

A progression of daily composite wind speeds from QuikScat in The darkest blue contour represents wind speeds below 2m s -1 (contour increment is 2 m s -1 ). Diurnal warming linked to “sagging” of the Trade Winds. Does the whole dark blue region warm 2°C? If so, what impact on clouds?

Transients in wind lead to near-inertial oscillations and probable shear-driven mixing local inertial period ~36 hours cm/sec Current speed at indicated depth yearday Shallow, near-inertial oscillations cm/s

Sampling issues Relatively shallow ocean mixed layer, but in transition –Good vertical resolution in upper 300 m –Good temporal resolution in upper 300 m –Good surface fluxes –High stability and strong property gradients at base Eddies –Large scale, slow –Embedded, enhanced mixing –Biological as well as physical signature –Goal of locating a mesoscale feature for joint ship-A/C study Background geostrophic flow field – Large scale, slow Transients may contribute to dynamics –Diurnal –Near-inertial Representativeness –In space –In time

Two moorings WHOI – Stratus Ocean Reference Station (20°S, 85°W) –Good surface meteorology/fluxes –High vertical resolution (U, T, S) down to 310m, sparse down to 1500m –Additional mixing/dissipation obs (Zappa/Farrar) SHOA DART – Surface mooring of DART installation (20°S, 75°W) –Good surface meteorology/fluxes –High vertical resolution (T) –Sparse vertical resolution (S) –No currents

Moored turbulence measurements (Zappa, Farrar, Weller) Approach: Use pulse-coherent ADCPs to measure velocity microstructure (1.3-cm spatial resolution over a 1- m horizontal span) to infer turbulent kinetic energy dissipation. Use dissipation with other moored measurements to: produce more direct estimates of vertical turbulent heat flux (for understanding SST) examine kinetic energy balance of near-inertial waves, including forcing, dissipation, and vertical propagation examine dissipation and vertical mixing associated with eddies

VOCALS REx: Ships VOCALS Peru Cruise track- Cr. Olaya 2008/10 Oct 2- Nov 3, 2008 Nov 6- Nov 29, 2008

RV Jose Olaya

VOCALS REx: Olaya

VOCALS REx: R H Brown Leg 1 (NOAA Climate Observation Program) Oct 2Depart Miami Oct 7Arrive Colon, people xfer Oct 7Night transit Panama Canal Oct 14Arrive SHOA buoy, begin survey Oct 18Arrive WHOI buoy Oct 18-24Buoy deploy, recover Buoy-ship comparisons Sampling Oct 24Begin survey to east Oct 27Arrive SHOA buoy Oct 27-Nov 2Buoy recover, deploy Buoy-ship comparisons Sampling Nov 2Underway to Arica Nov 3Arrive Arica Transits planned at 12 kts

VOCALS REx: R H Brown Leg 1 Research groups: WHOI Weller/Straneo – moorings, UCTD, Argo Floats, drifters, ADCP LDEO/WHOI Zappa/Farra – moored instrumentation PMEL – Sabine, moored PCO 2 INOCAR - Ecuadorian Navy Inst of Oceanography IMARPE – Inst for Marine Research, Peru SHOA – Chilean Navy Hydrographic and Ocean. Service, DART mooring NOAA ESRL Fairall - air-sea fluxes, radiosondes, cloud opt. properties NOAA ESRL Brewer – scan Doppler LIDAR NOAA ESRL Feingold – lidar-cloud radar aerosol-LWP NCSU – Yuter – C-band radar, drizzle U Miami – Albrecht, cloud drizzle/aerosol interactions; Minnett radiometric SST U Miami – Zuidema, cloud remote sensing Bigelow – Matrai, DMS production U Washington/NOAA PMEL/SIO – Covert/Bates, aerosols CU – Volkamer, atmos. Chemistry UH Huebert – DMS flux PMEL – underway DMS, underway PCO 2 U Calgary – Norman, aerosol NOAA- Teacher-at-Sea Heavy equipment: Mooring winch, anchors, and related 7 Vans: 1) Albrecht/Miami; 2) PMEL1/Aerosol/Chem; 3) PMEL2/Aerosol/Phys; 4) PMEL3/Chem; 5) PMEL4/spares; 6) WHOI/mooring; 7) ESRL/lower atmos Radiosondes/helium Instruments on upper decks

Eddy mapping, location Survey 2° swath between 75° W and 85°W Nazca Ridge?

Advective terms, long-term flow Argo floats – with oxygen 10 for VOCALS Plus existing, annual deployments Argo floats, surface drifters Plus remote sensing Moorings WHOI IMET (since Oct 2000) SHOA DART (since Oct 2006)

VOCALS REx: R H Brown Leg 2 ( NOAA Climate Prediction Program for the Americas ) Nov 6Depart Arica Nov 8On station, nominal target (20°S, 78°W) Nov 27Depart for Arica Nov 29Arrive Arica Nov 29-30Unload Nov 3-6In port in Arica, meet with A/C investigators, decide on target mesoscale feature(s); unload mooring equipment and recovered mooring hardware; people on/off In the original plan: two ships, mesoscale survey plus central time series ship; combined assault on mesoscale, turbulence, upper ocean heat budget, upper ocean biology. Now, we need to rethink Phase 2. Can folks on RH Brown meet tonight?

VOCALS REx: R H Brown Leg 2 Nov 8-27 On station, nominal target (20°S, 78°W) One station? Where? East of Nazca Ridge? West of Nazaca Ridge, near long term site? How much work with A/C? Onshore – offshore: POC gradient Aerosol gradient Ocean mesoscale gradients?

Connecting ocean sampling to modeling What do the modelers need? Real time? –What data is needed for assimilation, validation, initialization? –Moored meteorology – IMET –Remote sensing (altimetry, SST, wind, color) –Surface drifters –Argo floats –Shipboard sampling (physics, biology) Testing models during post Rex analyses –Time series –Sections along 20°S –Argo floats

An oceanographer’s wants From the A/C – synoptic maps of surface fluxes From remote sensing – SST (TMI), altimetry, surface winds From the modelers – dialog and guidance about sampling the ocean mesoscale - insight into the nonlinearity of the upper ocean and air-sea coupling on diurnal and near-inertial time scales -- insight into the spatial homogeneity of the region (e.g. The upper ocean balance of processes setting SST)