PO52B:
Coastal Seas and Deep Ocean Connections: Observing and Modeling for Process and Climate Studies IV


Session ID#: 11492

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:  Lixin Wu, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China, Jiayan Yang, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Robert E Todd, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Xiaopei Lin, 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:

PO52B-01
Rossby Waves propagating from the Pacific to the South China Sea derived from cruise observations in 2005 (87912)
Lingling Xie1,2, Quanan Zheng1, Jiwei Tian3, Shuwen Zhang4, Ying Feng5 and Xiaofei Yi2, (1)Department of Atmosphere and Ocean Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (2)Guangdong Key Laboratory of Coastal Ocean Variability and Disaster Prediction, Guangdong Ocean Universtiy, zhanjiang, China, (3)Ocean university of China, Qingdao, China, (4)Guangdong Key Laboratory of Coastal Ocean Variability and Disaster Prediction, Guangdong Ocean Universtiy, Zhanjiang, China, (5)Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
PO52B-03
Modeling the Impacts of the Loop Current on Circulation and Water Properties in Pulley Ridge Area, Southwest Florida Shelf (89153)
Chudong Pan, University of Southern Mississippi, Marine Science, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, Mingshun Jiang, Florida Atlantic University, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, Boca Raton, FL, United States, Fraser Dalgleish, Florida Atlantic University, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, Ft. Pierce, FL, United States and John Reed, Florida Atlantic University, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, Fort Pierce, FL, United States
PO52B-04
Water exchange across isobaths over the continental shelf of the East China Sea (90817)
Jing Zhang, Center for Marine Environmental Studies, Ehime University, Japan, Liang Zhao, College of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, China, Xinyu Guo, Ehime University, Center for Marine Environmental Studies, Matsuyama, Japan and Yasumasa Miyazawa, JAMSTEC, Yokohama, Japan
PO52B-05
A Numerical Investigation of the Interannual-to-Decadal Variability of the Along-shelf Transport in the Middle Atlantic Bight (87876)
Shuwen Zhang, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Physical Oceanography, Narragansett, RI, United States and Yiyong Luo, Ocean University of China, Physical Oceanography Laboratory/CIMST, Qingdao, China
PO52B-06
Response of the Bay of Bengal Circulation characteristics to the interannual forcing using Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS) (90877)
Arun Chakraborty and Sumit Dandapat, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Centre for Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Sciences, Kharagpur, India
PO52B-07
Topographic Steering of the Mediterranean Outflow West of the Strait of Gibraltar (92611)
Ricardo F. Sanchez Leal1, María Jesús Bellanco Esteban1, David Roque Atienza2, Andreas M Thurnherr3, Simone Sammartino4, Jose Carlos Sanchez-Garrido5, Francisco Javier Hernández Molina6, Jesus Garcia Lafuente5, Alvaro Peliz7, Cesar González-Pola8, Luis Miguel Fernández Salas1, Manuel Ruiz Villarreal9, Paulo Relvas10 and Cristina Naranjo4, (1)IEO, Cadiz, Spain, (2)ICMAN - CSIC, (3)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (4)University of Malaga, (5)ETSI Telecommunicacion, Malaga, Spain, (6)Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, TW20, United Kingdom, (7)IDL-Instituto Dom Luiz Faculty of Science Univ. Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, (8)Spanish Institute of Oceanography, Physical Oceanography, Gijon, Spain, (9)IEO, A Coruña, Spain, (10)University of the Algarve, Faro, Portugal
PO52B-08
Vorticity Dynamics of Cross-isobath Geostrophic Transport in the Stratified Steep and Concave Shelves (93643)
CHI Wing Hui, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Mathematics, Hong Kong, China and Gan Jianping, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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