EC14A:
Coastal Submesoscale Processes: Physics, Biogeochemistry, and Their Interactions Posters


Session ID#: 9285

Session Description:
Sub-mesoscale features in the ocean, frequently manifested as filaments, fronts, and eddies, are characterized by both O(1) Rossby number and a horizontal scale smaller than the internal Rossby radius of deformation. Sub-mesoscale processes are important as they contribute to the vertical transport of oceanic tracers, mass, and buoyancy and rectify the mixed layer structure and upper-ocean stratification. The coastal ocean, where most anthropogenic activities take place, is especially sensitive to these processes. This session invites observational, theoretical, and numerical modeling efforts associated with submesoscale processes in coastal environments and shelf seas within the scope of the ocean physics, biogeochemistry, and their interactions.
Primary Chair:  Sung Yong Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Sciecne and Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of (South)
Chair:  Hezi Gildor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Moderators:  Sung Yong Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Sciecne and Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of (South) and Hezi Gildor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Sung Yong Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Sciecne and Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of (South)
Index Terms:

4217 Coastal processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4273 Physical and biogeochemical interactions [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4504 Air/sea interactions [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4528 Fronts and jets [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • B - Biogeochemistry and Nutrients
  • PO - Physical Oceanography/Ocean Circulation
  • TP - Turbulent Processes

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
EC14A-0953
Effect of Submesoscale Eddies on Oceanic Dispersion of Materials in a Coastal Area off Fukushima Analyzed with a Downscaling System (87397)
Yuki Kamidaira, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Research Group for Environmental Science, Ibaraki, Japan; Kobe University, Kobe, Japan and Hideyuki Kawamura, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Research Group for Environmental Science, Naka-Gun, Tokai-Mura, Japan
 
EC14A-0954
Continental shelf eddies forced by cooling and modified by winds (87750)
Kenneth H Brink, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
 
EC14A-0955
Energy spectra and energy pathways of submesoscale coastal surface currents (87849)
Sung Yong Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Sciecne and Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of (South)
 
EC14A-0956
Biogeochemical responses to meso- and submesoscale oceanic variability in the Kuroshio region (88450)
Yota Suzue1, Yusuke Uchiyama1 and Hidekatsu Yamazaki2, (1)Kobe University, Kobe, Japan, (2)Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan
 
EC14A-0957
Do submesoscale frontal processes ventilate the oxygen minimum zone off Peru? (88714)
Soeren Thomsen1, Torsten Kanzow2, Francois Colas3, Vincent Echevin3, Gerd Krahmann1 and Anja Engel1, (1)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (2)Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany, (3)Univ Pierre and Marie Curie-Paris 6, Paris, France
 
EC14A-0959
Observations of phytoplankton response to submesoscale forcing in Southern California Bight (90071)
David Miller1, Geoffrey B Smith1, George O Marmorino1, Ingrid M. Angel Benavides2, Ryan P North2 and Burkard Baschek2, (1)US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Institute of Coastal Research, Geesthacht, Germany
 
EC14A-0960
The Gulf of Eilat/Aqaba: a natural driven cavity? (90293)
Hezi Gildor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, Erick Fredj, The Jerusalem College of Technology, Jerusalem, Israel, Alexander B Kostinski, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, United States and Hilla Afargan, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
 
EC14A-0961
MODULATION OF BOTTOM HYPOXIA BY SUBMESOSCALE SHELF EDDIES IN THE NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO (90964)
Robert D Hetland1, Wenxia Zhang1, Steven Francis DiMarco2 and Katja Fennel3, (1)Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States, (2)Texas A & M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, (3)Dalhousie University, Department of Oceanography, Halifax, NS, Canada
 
EC14A-0962
Fresh water input as driver of submesoscale variability in coastal waters: The case of the Gulf of Mexico (91731)
Annalisa Bracco, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States, Hao Luo, University of Georgia Athens, Athens, GA, United States and James C McWilliams, University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
EC14A-0963
Coastal Submesoscale Baroclinic Eddies in Cyclostrophic Balance in the Saguenay Fjord (91875)
Alexandre Livernoche1, Daniel Bourgault1, Cedric P Chavanne1 and Peter Galbraith2, (1)University of Quebec at Rimouski, Institut des sciences de la mer, Rimouski, QC, Canada, (2)Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Mont-Joli, QC, Canada
 
EC14A-0964
High-Resolution Observations of Submesoscale Eddies in the Coastal Ocean (92815)
Burkard Baschek1, Geoffrey B Smith2, David Miller3, Ingrid M. Angel Benavides1, Ryan P North4 and George O Marmorino5, (1)Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Institute of Coastal Research, Geesthacht, Germany, (2)Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (3)US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (4)University of Hamburg, Institute of Oceanography, Hamburg, Germany, (5)Naval Research Lab DC, Washington, DC, United States
 
EC14A-0965
Current temporal asymmetry and the role of tides: Nan-Wan Bay vs. the Gulf of Elat (92870)
Yosef Ashkenazy, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Midreshet, Sde Boker, Israel, Erick Fredj, The Jerusalem College of Technology, Jerusalem, Israel, Hezi Gildor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, Gwo-Ching Gong, National Taiwan Ocean University, Institute of Marine Environment and Ecology, Keelung, Taiwan, Hung-Jen Lee, National Taiwan Ocean University, Department of Marine Environmental Informatics, Keelung, Taiwan and Chau-Ron Wu, National Taiwan Normal University, Department of Earth Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan
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