Upper ocean heat budget in the southeast Pacific stratus cloud region using eddy-resolving HYCOM Yangxing Zheng (University of Colorado) Toshi Shinoda.

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Upper ocean heat budget in the southeast Pacific stratus cloud region using eddy-resolving HYCOM Yangxing Zheng (University of Colorado) Toshi Shinoda (Naval Research Laboratory) George Kiladis (NOAA-ESRL/PSD) Jialin Lin (Ohio State University) Joseph Metzger (Naval Research Laboratory) Harley Hurlburt (Naval Research Laboratory) Benjamin Geise (Texas A&M Univ.)

Stratus cloud decks ===> important role in regional and global climate Most coupled GCMs have problems in producing realistic stratus clouds. Upper ocean processes that control SST is crucial for simulating stratus clouds Surface mooring measurements by WHOI since October 2000 (Colbo and Weller 2007) New campaign: VAMOS Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Study (VOCALS) Intensive Observations: VOCALS Regional Experiment (Oct. 2008) Mar-AprSep-Oct

Term Estimate (W/m2) Data Surface heat flux 44 ( 5) IMET buoy Horizontal heat advection 6 ( 4) QuikSCAT winds by Ekman transport Satellite SST Horizontal heat advection -20( 5) IMET velocity, temperature by geostrophic transport Historical temperature Ekman pumping 2.5( 5) QuikSCAT winds IMET temperature Eddy flux divergence -30 Residual Vertical diffusion -3( 2) IMET temperature Upper ocean heat balance (upper 250m) at the buoy site (Colbo and Weller, 2007)

Hypothesis (Colbo and Weller 2007) “We postulate that the eddy flux divergence represents the effect of the cold coherent eddies formed near the coast….. the upwelled water does influence the offshore structure, but through the fluctuating mesoscale flow not the mean transport.” Issues Upper ocean processes which balance the positive (warming) surface heat flux Representativeness of the IMET site for the entire stratus cloud region Role of eddies

Models Global HYCOM Horizontal resolution: 1/12 deg. X 1/12 deg. Period: Jan Apr No data assimilation SODA Horizontal resolution: 0.4 deg. (lon) X 0.25 deg.(lat) Period: Data assimilation Relative importance of horizontal advection and eddy flux divergence for the upper ocean heat balance

Comparison of heat budget at 85W, 20S Colbo and Weller (2007) HYCOM SODA Surface heat fllux Geostrophic Ekman Eddy flux div Ekman currents => total - geostrophic

Upper 50m

Heat budget in the upper 50m (100W-80W, 30S-10S) HYCOM SODA Surface heat flux 11 Geostrophic Ekman 3 6 Eddy flux div

Conclusions Geostrophic transport in the upper 50m causes net cooling in most of the stratus cloud region Ekman transport provides net warming north of the IMET site and net cooling south of the IMET site The eddy heat flux divergence term can be comparable to other terms at a particular location such as the IMET site, but it is negligible for the entire stratus region when area averaged since it is not spatially coherent in the open ocean. Surface buoy observations in locations both north and south of the IMET site would be useful.