PO43B:
Coastal Seas and Deep Ocean Connections: Observing and Modeling for Process and Climate Studies I


Session ID#: 11490

Session Description:
Shelf-sea/open-ocean exchange processes are key controllers of coastal ocean water properties, including heat, freshwater, nutrients, and pollutants, and are important to marine ecosystem functioning. Along many continental margins, circulation is affected by the proximity of energetic, deep-ocean boundary current systems. These boundary currents are of leading importance in basin-scale budgets, but the small-scale, high-frequency variability that results where coastal seas and boundary current regimes interact is challenging to observe and model. Evolving coastal observing systems and advances in data-assimilative modeling are improving our ability to provide well-resolved ocean circulation estimates. This session invites presentations on processes that drive exchange across the continental shelf and slope in any geographical setting and across the spectrum of time scales encompassing extreme events to mesoscale, seasonal, and interannual variability. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: flow-bathymetry interaction; boundary and coastal current instabilities; the relative influence of local and large-scale remotely driven variability on coastal dynamics; impacts on regional air-sea interaction and teleconnections to atmosphere and ocean variability at large scales; and the design of observing systems that integrate coastal and deep observing technologies to span the continental margin. Observational, numerical, and theoretical results from all geographic regions are welcome.
Primary Chair:  John Wilkin, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
Chairs:  Bernadette Sloyan1, Robert E Todd2, Christopher A Edwards3, Lixin Wu4, Xiaopei Lin4 and Jiayan Yang5, (1)CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Hobart, Hobart, TAS, Australia(2)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States(3)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States(4)Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China(5)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Moderators:  Robert E Todd, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Christopher A Edwards, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States and John Wilkin, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Lixin Wu, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
Index Terms:

4219 Continental shelf and slope processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4260 Ocean data assimilation and reanalysis [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4262 Ocean observing systems [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4576 Western boundary currents [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Air-sea Interactions and Upper Ocean Processes
  • EC - Estuarine and Coastal
  • IS - Instrumentation & Sensing Technologies
  • OD - Ocean Observing and Data Management

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

PO43B-01
Diagnosing large Gulf Stream meanders in the South Atlantic Bight using adjoint sensitivity analysis (88008)
Xiangming Zeng, North Carolina State University Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States and Ruoying He, North Carolina State University Raleigh, Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Raleigh, NC, United States
PO43B-02
Dynamics of the Direct Intrusion of Gulf Stream Ring Water onto the Mid-Atlantic Bight Continental Shelf (88049)
Weifeng Gordon Zhang, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Department of Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Glen Gawarkiewicz, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
PO43B-03
Cross-Isobath Transport of Shelf/Slope Water Driven by Offshore Eddies (88499)
Deepak Cherian, MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography, Physical Oceanography, Cambridge, MA, United States and Kenneth H Brink, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
PO43B-04
Tidally-Driven Exchange at the Shelf Break (89448)
Carl Spingys, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom, Richard G Williams, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69, United Kingdom, Mattias Green, Bangor University, Bangor, LL59, United Kingdom, Joanne Hopkins, National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool, United Kingdom and Jonathan Sharples, University of Liverpool, Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences, Liverpool, L69, United Kingdom
PO43B-05
Current and Wind-driven Upwelling Events Inshore of the Agulhas Current (90447)
Greta M Leber, University of Miami, MPO, Miami, FL, United States and Lisa M Beal, University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Miami, FL, United States
PO43B-06
Pathway of the Kuroshio water traveling to the Bering Sea in a western North Pacific eddy-resolving model analyzed with the tangent linear and adjoint models (90440)
Yosuke Fujii1, Humio Mitsudera2, Tomohiro Nakamura2, Hajime Nishigaki3, Toru Miyama4, Taku Wagawa5, Shin-ichi Ito6, Nariaki Hirose7 and Norihisa Usui7, (1)Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, (2)Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, (3)Oita University, Oita, Japan, (4)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, (5)Japan Sea National Fisheries Research Institute, Niigata, Japan, (6)Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (7)Meteorological Research Institute, Ibaraki, Japan
PO43B-07
Eddy-topography interactions and the fate of the Persian Gulf Outflow (87448)
Clément Vic1, Guillaume Roullet1, Xavier Capet2, Xavier J Carton1, Maarten J Molemaker3 and Jonathan Gula1, (1)Laboratoire de Physique des Océans, Brest, France, (2)Université Pierre et Marie Curie, LOCEAN , IPSL, Paris, France, (3)Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
PO43B-08
Anomalous ocean conditions along the US Pacific coast in 2014: analyses using the West Coast Operational Forecast System (WCOFS) (91577)
Alexander L Kurapov1, John Alexander Barth2, Michael Kosro2, Edward Payson Myers III3 and Eric J Bayler4, (1)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)NOAA, NOS/OCS, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (4)NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD, United States
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