OS11A-1994
Diurnal/Inertial Oscillations on the West Florida Shelf in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico.
Monday, 14 December 2015
Poster Hall (Moscone South)
Ekaterina V Maksimova, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States and Robert H Weisberg, University of South Florida Tampa, Tampa, FL, United States
Abstract:
Oscillations of diurnal/inertial frequency on the West Florida Shelf in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico are thought to be seasonally important for mixing the shelf waters because of their tendency to have large vertical shear and to be quite energetic. Such oscillations are also thought to seasonally affect the ecology of the region through daily vertical thermocline migration. The presentation will focus on some novel findings about the diurnal/inertial coastal current fluctuations based on unique observational and modeled data sets on the West Florida Shelf. The properties of the oscillations, including spatial and temporal characteristics, and mechanisms of generation and propagation will be discussed. This presentation is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation Ocean Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship under Grant OCE-1421180 (E. V. Maksimova).
