E34A:
The Dynamics of Estuaries and Coastal Buoyancy-Driven Flows III Posters


Session ID#: 27891

Session Description:
Estuaries and coastal buoyant plumes are ubiquitous and diverse features along continental margins that exist at the confluence of terrestrial and oceanic waters, ranging from small tropical lagoons to glacial meltwater plumes in high-latitude fjords. The dynamics of these systems cover a wide spectrum of spatial and temporal scales, spanning stratified turbulence to frontal instabilities to shelf-wide circulation scales. Estuarine and coastal buoyancy-driven flows are influenced by numerous factors including tides, freshwater discharge, wind, surface and internal waves, frontal processes, and flow-topography interactions. These factors ultimately influence the turbulence and mixing processes in the system, serving as a link between the terrestrial and oceanic domains. Hydrodynamics in these systems profoundly impact the regional-scale ecological and biogeochemical processes in addition to various physical processes such as sediment transport and ocean-cryosphere interactions. Consequently, understanding the processes governing the coupling of the estuary-coastal ocean system is vital to advancing the knowledge of the system-wide response to climate change and anthropogenic activities. We welcome submissions examining the complex, multi-scale nature of estuarine and coastal buoyancy-driven flow dynamics using observational, numerical, theoretical, and/or laboratory methods.
Primary Chair:  Joseph T Jurisa, Portland State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Portland, OR, United States
Co-chairs:  Piero Luigi F Mazzini, EOS Center - San Francisco State University, Tiburon, CA, United States, Rebecca H Jackson, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States and Sarah N Giddings, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, United States
Moderators:  Piero Luigi F Mazzini, EOS Center - San Francisco State University, Tiburon, CA, United States and Rebecca H Jackson, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Rebecca H Jackson, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
Index Terms:

4217 Coastal processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4235 Estuarine processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4528 Fronts and jets [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4568 Turbulence, diffusion, and mixing processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Cross-Topics:
  • CD - Coastal Dynamics
  • OM - Ocean Modeling
  • PS - Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Smaller
  • PO - Physical Oceanography: Other

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Using an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle to track the frontal region of a river plume (302509)
Renato Mendes1,2, Jose Pinto1, João M. Dias2, José C. B. da Silva3 and Joao Tasso Borges de Sousa1, (1)University of Porto, LSTS, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of Engineering (FEUP), Porto, Portugal, (2)University of Aveiro, CESAM, Physics Department, Aveiro, Portugal, (3)CIMAR/CIIMAR – Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, Department of Geosciences, Environment and Spatial Planning, Porto, Portugal
The blocking of river plume downstream propagation by wind and ambient circulation (321038)
Yan Jia and Michael M Whitney, University of Connecticut, Marine Sciences, Groton, CT, United States
Dynamics of the Buoyant Coastal Current from an Idealized Small Discharge River (323147)
Emily P Lemagie and James A Lerczak, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
Summertime Alongshore Current Variability for 16 Years from 2000 to 2015 near the Mid-East Coast of Korea (326336)
Jae-Hyoung Park and SungHyun Nam, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
'Revisiting Chapman and Lentz’s (1994) Frontal Arrest Problem' (308152)
Hsuan-Wei Hsu, National Taiwan University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Taipei, Taiwan, Chiou-Jiu Chen, Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, Taiwan and Shih-Nan Chen, Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Mixed instabilities and estimates of perturbation scales in unstable, bottom-attached coastal currents (308239)
Chiou-Jiu Chen, Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, Taiwan and Shih-Nan Chen, Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Predicting the Settling Time of Non-Buoyant Particles Falling Through Stably Stratified Fluid (312502)
William Albert Swick, US Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, United States
Sediments transport induced by the bottom-trapped Changjiang River plume in East China Sea Shelf (307976)
Tianning Wu and Hui WU, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

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