PO51B:
Coastal Seas and Deep Ocean Connections: Observing and Modeling for Process and Climate Studies III


Session ID#: 11491

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:  John Wilkin, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, Bernadette Sloyan, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Hobart, Hobart, TAS, Australia and Jiayan Yang, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Robert E Todd, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States
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:

PO51B-01
Direct observations of the East Australian Current and Property Transport at 27 oS from 2012-2013 (89207)
Bernadette Sloyan, Ken R Ridgway and Rebecca Cowley, CSIRO, Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, Australia
PO51B-02
The Influence of a Western Boundary Current on Continental Shelf Processes Along Southeastern Australia. (87688)
Moninya Roughan, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia and Coastal and Regional Oceanography Lab, UNSW Australia
PO51B-03
Cool, Near-Bottom Intrusions in the Central Great Barrier Reef (87920)
Jessica Benthuysen1, Hemerson E Tonin1, Richard M Brinkman2 and Craig Raymond Steinberg2, (1)Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, QLD, Australia, (2)Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, Australia
PO51B-04
New views of the Gulf Stream (91436)
Robert E Todd, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States
PO51B-05
Upper slope jets inshore of the Charleston Bump – barriers to shelf-slope exchange? (92120)
Harvey Seim, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Marine Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, Catherine Richardson Edwards, Skidaway Institute of Oceanogr, Savannah, GA, United States and Jim Nelson, Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, Savannah, GA, United States
PO51B-06
In Situ Observations of Shelf-Slope Exchanges Associated to Brazil Current Eddies (93297)
Afonso M Paiva, UFRJ Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
PO51B-07
Properties of the Agulhas Current's Inshore Front During The Shelf Agulhas Glider Experiment (SAGE) (87645)
Marjolaine Krug1, Sebastian Swart1 and Wayne Goschen2, (1)Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Johannesburg, South Africa, (2)South African Environmental Observation Netwrok, Engagasini Node, Cape Town, South Africa
PO51B-08
The Alaskan Stream: Zonal Evolution of Structure and Transport Quantified with Argo Data (87422)
Paige D Lavin, University of Washington, Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States and Gregory C Johnson, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States
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