PO53D:
Observing and Predicting Historic and Future Surface and Internal Tides I


Session ID#: 7875

Session Description:
The gravitational pull of the sun and the moon causes predictable but fascinating surface tidal motions in the world’s oceans. However, non-astronomical events such as sea-level rise, bathymetric change, non-tidal currents, and altered stratification also produce changes to tidal signals, over time scales ranging from meteorological events to millennia.  This session seeks contributions that encompass seasonal and secular variability of surface and internal tides in the open and coastal ocean, as well as shorter time-scale processes such as topographic scattering effects and internal tide/mesoscale circulation interactions. We invite both observation- and model-based studies of the processes leading to non-stationary tides and application-based studies focused on tidal prediction and satellite altimetry. Changed tidal dynamics can also imply altered long-wave dynamics. Hence, we also encourage contributions that explore the connections between narrow-band tidal dynamics and broadband phenomena such as storm surges.
Primary Chair:  Maarten C Buijsman, University of Southern Mississippi, Department of Marine Science, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States
Chairs:  Brian K Arbic, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Zhongxiang Zhao, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States and Stefan A Talke, Portland State University, Portland, OR, United States
Moderators:  Maarten C Buijsman, University of Southern Mississippi, Department of Marine Science, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, Brian K Arbic, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Stefan A Talke, Portland State University, Portland, OR, United States and Zhongxiang Zhao, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Maarten C Buijsman, University of Southern Mississippi, Department of Marine Science, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States
Index Terms:

4255 Numerical modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4263 Ocean predictability and prediction [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4544 Internal and inertial waves [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4560 Surface waves and tides [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • EC - Estuarine and Coastal
  • PC - Past, Present and Future Climate

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

PO53D-01
Geography and Dynamics of Small-scale Coastal and Internal Tides from Exact Repeat and Geodetic Mission Altimetry (90333)
Edward Zaron, Portland State University, Portland, OR, United States and Richard D Ray, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
PO53D-02
Scattering of an obliquely incident mode-one internal tide off a continental shelf and slope (93681)
James A Lerczak, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
PO53D-03
Internal gravity wave contributions to global sea surface variability (89626)
Anna Savage1, Brian K Arbic1, James G Richman2, Jay F Shriver3, Maarten C Buijsman4, Luis Zamudio5, Alan J Wallcraft6 and Hari Sharma7, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)COAPS, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States, (3)US Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (4)University of Southern Mississippi, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (5)Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States, (6)Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (7)Portage Northern High School, Portage, MI, United States
PO53D-04
Disentangling Nonlinear and Nonstationary River-Tide Dynamics with CWT_Multi (89556)
David A Jay and Stefan A Talke, Portland State University, Portland, OR, United States
PO53D-05
Determining Internal Wave Energy Flux from Density Perturbation Measurements (90671)
Harry L Swinney1, Michael Allshouse2, Frank M. M Lee3 and Philip Morrison3, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (2)Northeastern University, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Boston, MA, United States, (3)University of Texas at Austin, Physics Department, Austin, TX, United States
PO53D-06
Prediction of Surface M2 Tidal Currents by a Global Ocean Model and Evaluation Using Observed Drifter Trajectories (90220)
Tsubasa Kodaira1, Keith R Thompson1 and Natacha Bianca Bernier2, (1)Dalhousie University, Oceanography, Halifax, NS, Canada, (2)Environment Canada, Montreal, QC, Canada
PO53D-07
On improving the accuracy of the M2 barotropic tides embedded in a high-resolution global ocean circulation model (92844)
Alan J Wallcraft1, Hans Ngodock1, Innocent Souopgui2, James G Richman3, Jay F Shriver4 and Brian K Arbic5, (1)Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (2)University of Southern Mississippi, Department of Marine Science, Slidell, LA, United States, (3)COAPS, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States, (4)Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (5)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
PO53D-08
‘Contamination’ of the Pelagic Linear Barotropic Tides by Nonlinear Barotropic Tides (92727)
Douglas S Luther1, Martin D. Guiles1 and Alan D Chave2, (1)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (2)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
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