The wrong side of the river: A tale of water column stability and the role of velocity shear on seasonal shelf stratification in northern Gulf of Mexico, the forgotten region of freshwater influence

Brian Dzwonkowski, University of South Alabama, Department of Marine Sciences, Mobile, AL, United States, Severine Fournier, JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, Kyeong Park, Texas A & M University at Galveston, Galveston, TX, United States, Sabrina M Parra, Naval Research Laboratory, MS, United States and John T Reager II, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States