PO53B:
Coastal Seas and Deep Ocean Connections: Observing and Modeling for Process and Climate Studies V


Session ID#: 11493

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:  Bernadette Sloyan, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Hobart, Hobart, TAS, Australia, Christopher A Edwards, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States and Xiaopei Lin, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
Student Paper Review Liaison:  John Wilkin, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 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:

PO53B-01
The origin of mean flows on Western Boundary continental shelves such as the Mid-Atlantic Bight (90076)
James M Pringle, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States
PO53B-02
Impact of Mesoscale Eddies on Kuroshio Intrusion Variations at Northeast of Taiwan (88121)
Yuqi Yin, Institute of Oceanography, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China, Xiaopei Lin, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China and Ruoying He, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, United States
PO53B-03
Gulf Stream’s Induced Variations in Coastal Sea Level: Can the Same Mechanism Work From Daily to Decadal Time-Scales? (87879)
Tal Ezer, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States
PO53B-04
Mechanism of interannual to decadal sea level variability along the Japanese coast (93595)
Norihisa Usui1, Koji Ogawa2, Tamaki Yasuda3, Nariaki Hirose1 and Tsurane Kuragano1, (1)Meteorological Research Institute, Ibaraki, Japan, (2)Fukuoka District Meteorological Observatory, Fukuoka, Japan, (3)Japan Meteorological Agency, Tokyo, Japan
PO53B-05
A Future View of Ocean-Shelf Exchange and Shelf-Scale Circulation on the NW European Continental Shelf (91318)
Jason T Holt1, Jeff Polton1, John Huthnance1, James Harle1, Sarah Wakelin1, Enda O'Dea2 and John Siddorn2, (1)National Oceanography Center, Liverpool, United Kingdom, (2)Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom
PO53B-06
The Response of Western Boundary Currents to Intensifying Global Winds (88938)
Lisa M Beal, University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Miami, FL, United States and Shane Elipot, RSMAS, Miami, FL, United States
PO54C-3263
A synthesis and mechanism study of variability of Kuroshio transport and its impacts on circulation in the East China Sea (92462)
Jiayan Yang, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
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