CD14C:
The Inner Shelf: Opening the Black Box Connecting the Coastal Ocean and the Surf Zone III Posters


Session ID#: 27739

Session Description:
The inner part of the continental shelf connects the surfzone, dominated by waves, to the coastal ocean, dominated by larger scale dynamics as the circulation adjusts to the presence of a coastal boundary. Extending from the outer edge of the surfzone to water depths of up to 50 m, surface and bottom boundary layers generally overlap and interact within the inner shelf as the region is forced by wind, waves, surface heat fluxes, barotropic tides and nonlinear internal waves. Also, wind-driven currents, thermally-driven baroclinic exchange, submesoscale activity, surfzone processes, and flow interactions with coastal topography can lead to variability, meanders and eddies at a wide range of scales. Understanding the linkage from the outer shelf to the surfzone through the inner shelf is important to predict water property exchange (heat, sediment, pollutants, biota), to search and rescue, and for shallow water acoustics. This session seeks to advance our understanding of in-situ and remote sensing observations, and numerical modeling studies focused on inner-shelf dynamics with length scales of up to 50 km. In particular, studies investigating the relative importance of the range of physical processes driving inner shelf circulation in areas removed from freshwater-driven systems are encouraged.
Primary Chair:  Nirnimesh Kumar, University of Washington, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States
Co-chairs:  Anthony Kirincich, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Rachel Horwitz, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada and Kristen A Davis, University of California Irvine, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Irvine, CA, United States
Moderators:  Rachel Horwitz, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada and Nirnimesh Kumar, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Nirnimesh Kumar, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States
Index Terms:

4520 Eddies and mesoscale processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4544 Internal and inertial waves [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4546 Nearshore processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4560 Surface waves and tides [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Cross-Topics:
  • PL - Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Larger
  • PS - Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Smaller

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

An Overview of the 2017 Point Sal, California, Inner Shelf Dynamics Experiment (314341)
John Alexander Barth1, James A Lerczak2, Joe Calantoni3, C Chris Chickadel4, John Anthony Colosi5, Emanuele Di Lorenzo6, Christopher A Edwards7, Gordon Farquharson8, Falk Feddersen9, Hans Christian Graber10, Kevin A Haas11, Merrick C Haller2, Thomas H C Herbers5, David Honegger12, Tim T Janssen13, Nirnimesh Kumar14, Luc Lenain9, Jennifer A MacKinnon9, James H MacMahan5, Kenneth Melville15, Arthur J Miller16, Andrew M Moore7, Melissa Moulton8, Jim Moum17, Jonathan D Nash17, André Palóczy18, Adrianus J Reniers19, Roland Romeiser10, Pieter Smit20, Sutara H Suanda9, Eric J Terrill21, James M Thomson4 and Amy Frances Waterhouse9, (1)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (4)Applied Physics Lab (UW), Seattle, WA, United States, (5)Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, United States, (6)Georgia Tech University, GA, United States, (7)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (8)Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (9)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (10)University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Miami, FL, United States, (11)Georgia Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Atlanta, GA, United States, (12)Oregon State University, School of Civil and Construction Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States, (13)Spoondrift, Half Moon Bay, CA, United States, (14)Scripps Institute of Oceanography, Columbia, SC, United States, (15)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, United States, (16)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (17)Oregon State Univ, Corvallis, OR, United States, (18)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Physical Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (19)Delft University of Technology, Delft, 5612, Netherlands, (20)NorthWest Research Associates, Boulder, CO, United States, (21)SIO, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, United States
Modeling Alongshore Variability of the Flow Exchange between the Surf Zone and Inner Shelf (317935)
Kevin A Haas, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Atlanta, GA, United States, Donghua Cai, Georgia Institute of Technology, Civil Engineering, Atlanta, GA, United States, Tongtong Xu, Georgia Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Atlanta, GA, United States, Emanuele Di Lorenzo, Georgia Inst Tech, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, GA, United States, Christopher A Edwards, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States and Arthur J Miller, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States
Headland Flow Dynamics and Differential Upwelling Around Point Sal, CA (309039)
Michael Kovatch1, Falk Feddersen1, Jack A Barth2, Joe Calantoni3, C Chris Chickadel4, John Anthony Colosi5, Hans Christian Graber6, Derek Jeffrey Grimes7, Merrick C Haller8, Luc Lenain1, James A Lerczak8, Jennifer A MacKinnon1, Jamie MacMahan5, Wallace Kendall Melville1, Melissa Moulton9, Roland Romeiser6, Eric J Terrill10, Jim Thomson9 and Amy Frances Waterhouse1, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)Oregon State University, Marine Studies Initiative, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)John C. Stennis Space Center, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (4)Applied Physics Lab (UW), Seattle, WA, United States, (5)Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, United States, (6)University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Miami, FL, United States, (7)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Integrative Oceanography Division, La Jolla, CA, United States, (8)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (9)Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (10)SIO, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, United States
Headland Influences on the Inner-shelf Surface Circulation and Particle Statistics (312644)
Matthew S Spydell1, Falk Feddersen1, Jamie MacMahan2, Jim Thomson3, Derek Jeffrey Grimes4, Sutara H Suanda1 and Michael Kovatch1, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, United States, (3)Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (4)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Integrative Oceanography Division, La Jolla, CA, United States
Impact of waves on the velocity field of tidal currents in stormy conditions (321333)
Aleksandar Jakovljevic1, Martin Dumont2 and Frederic Dias1, (1)University College Dublin, Earth Institute, Dublin, Ireland, (2)Bureau Veritas, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris, France
Storm-driven shelf cross-shore flows off the South Carolina coast (309511)
Xiaodong Wu, University of South Carolina Columbia, Columbia, SC, United States, George Voulgaris, Marine Science Program, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Columbia, SC, United States and Nirnimesh Kumar, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, Columbia, SC, United States
Langmuir circulation in unstratified shallow water under misaligned winds/waves and net current (326656)
Andres Tejada-Martinez, University of South Florida, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tampa, FL, United States and Jie Zhang, University of South Florida Tampa, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tampa, FL, United States
On the Interaction of Eddies and Surface Waves in Southern California (324653)
Cigdem Akan, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL, United States, James C McWilliams, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Yusuke Uchiyama, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan and Leonel Romero, University of California Santa Barbara, Earth Research Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Satellite Observations of the Inner Shelf Dynamics Experiment (325381)
Hans Christian Graber and Roland Romeiser, University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Miami, FL, United States
Using Doppler Marine Radar to Detect Surface Currents and Ocean Features Along the California Coast (307478)
Lisa Marie Nyman1, Bjoern Lund2, Hans Christian Graber3, Roland Romeiser3 and Jochen Horstmann4, (1)University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, (2)Univ of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, (3)University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Miami, FL, United States, (4)Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research, Geesthacht, Germany
Semidiurnal Internal Tides along the Washington Continental Shelf: Observations and Model Simulations (305815)
Nirnimesh Kumar, University of Washington, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States, David Alan Fertitta, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States and Parker MacCready, Univ. Washington, Olympia, WA, United States
Coastally generated near-inertial waves (324053)
Samuel Maurice Kelly, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN, United States
Observations of Nonlinear Internal Wave Propagation and Dissipation on the Inner Continental Shelf around a Rocky Outcrop in the Vicinity of Point Sal CA. (307378)
John Anthony Colosi1, Jamie MacMahan1, Falk Feddersen2, Jennifer A MacKinnon2, André Palóczy3, Amy Frances Waterhouse2, Jack A Barth4, Johannes Becherer5, James A Lerczak6 and Jim Moum7, (1)Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, United States, (2)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (3)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Physical Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (4)Oregon State University, Marine Studies Initiative, Corvallis, OR, United States, (5)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, (6)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (7)Oregon State University, College of Earth Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, Corvalis, OR, United States
Semidiurnal Internal Tidal Dynamics in the Santa Maria Basin: Spatial and Temporal Variability (305980)
David Alan Fertitta, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States, Nirnimesh Kumar, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States, Sutara H Suanda, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States and Christopher A Edwards, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Observations of rip-current and internal-wave driven exchange between the surf zone and inner shelf (307075)
Melissa Moulton, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, Chris Chickadel, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States and James M Thomson, Applied Physics Lab (UW), Seattle, WA, United States
The Role of Advective Heat Fluxes in Buffering Annual to Inter-Annual Temperature Variability Over U.S. Inner Shelves. (321843)
Anthony Kirincich, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
The Spatial Variability of Heat Flux Across the Surfzone Transition Region (324153)
Matt Gough1, Jamie MacMahan1, Tucker Friesmuth2, Falk Feddersen3, John Anthony Colosi1, Amy Frances Waterhouse3, Jenn McKinnon4, Jack A Barth5, James A Lerczak6, Joe Calantoni7 and Jim Thomson8, (1)Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, United States, (2)Naval Postgraduate School, United States, (3)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (4)Scripps Institute of Oceanography, United States, (5)Oregon State University, Marine Studies Initiative, Corvallis, OR, United States, (6)Oregon State University College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, United States, (7)John C. Stennis Space Center, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (8)Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
The study on characters and mechanisms of variations in path of the Taiwan Warm Current Inshore Branch (309722)
Jianfeng Wang, Institute of Oceanology Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China, Fei Yu, Institute of Oceanology, Qingdao, China, Chuanjie Wei, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Science, QingDao, China and Qiang Ren, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
Spatio-Temporal Variability of Turbulence on the Inner Shelf (305239)
Johannes Becherer, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States and Jim Moum, Oregon State University, College of Earth Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, Corvalis, OR, United States
Field Observations of Turbulent Bottom Boundary Layer Processes along the Inner Shelf (323920)
Christy Swann1, Joe Calantoni1, Julian Simeonov2, Rachel M Allen3, Edward F Braithwaite III4, Falk Feddersen5, Jack A Barth6, C Chris Chickadel7, John Anthony Colosi8, Emanuele Di Lorenzo9, Christopher A Edwards10, Gordon Farquharson11, Thomas M Freismuth8, Hans Christian Graber12, Kevin A Haas13, Thomas H C Herbers8, Merrick C Haller14, David Honegger15, Tim T Janssen16, Nirnimesh Kumar17, Luc Lenain5, James A Lerczak14, Jennifer A MacKinnon5, James C. McWilliams18, Kenneth Melville19, Arthur J Miller20, Andrew M Moore10, Melissa Moulton11, Jim Moum21, Ad Reniers22, Roland Romeiser12, Matthew S Spydell23, Eric J Terrill24, Jim Thomson11 and Amy Frances Waterhouse5, (1)U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (2)Naval Research Lab Stennis Space Center, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (3)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)John C. Stennis Space Center, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (5)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (6)Oregon State University, Marine Studies Initiative, Corvallis, OR, United States, (7)Applied Physics Lab (UW), Seattle, WA, United States, (8)Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, United States, (9)Georgia Inst Tech, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, GA, United States, (10)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (11)Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (12)University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Miami, FL, United States, (13)Georgia Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Atlanta, GA, United States, (14)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (15)Oregon State University, School of Civil and Construction Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States, (16)Spoondrift, Half Moon Bay, CA, United States, (17)Scripps Institute of Oceanography, Columbia, SC, United States, (18)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (19)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, United States, (20)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (21)Oregon State University, College of Earth Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, Corvalis, OR, United States, (22)Delft University of Technology, Hydrolic Engineering, Delft, Netherlands, (23)SIO, La Jolla, CA, United States, (24)SIO, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, United States
Lagrangian observations of two- and three-dimensional coastal flows: submesoscale fronts, vertical velocities and Langmuir circulation (325491)
Leonel Romero1, Carter Ohlmann1, Enric Pallas Sanz2, Nemesis Aguilar-Tepole2 and Paula Perez-Brunius2, (1)University of California Santa Barbara, Earth Research Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (2)CICESE, Ensenada, Mexico

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