PL41A:
Ocean Surface and Internal Tides II


Session ID#: 36754

Session Description:
This session solicits papers concerned with observing, predicting, and understanding the dynamics of surface and internal tides in the ocean. Ocean surface tides are largely coherent and narrowband processes which are unique among most oceanic phenomena in the degree to which they can be predicted. But the deviations from predictability can provide insights into non-tidal phenomena, particularly internal tide-eddy interactions, scattering, nonlinearity, and other dynamics leading to the decoherence of tides. Developments in both dynamical and empirical modeling of tides are also finding applications in the de-tiding of diverse ocean measurements, as increased accuracy is both being demanded and attained. Global and regional models and observations of tides are relevant to studies of historical and future tidal mixing, energy production from tidal current streams, regional trends in extreme sea level and flooding, and efforts to link land hydrology and coastal oceanography, with the latter prompted by preparations for the future Surface Water Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission.
Primary Chair:  Edward D. Zaron, Portland State University, Portland, OR, United States
Co-chairs:  Maarten C Buijsman, University of Southern Mississippi, Department of Marine Science, Stennis Space Center, United States, Mattias Green, Bangor University, School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor, United Kingdom and Zhongxiang Zhao, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
Moderators:  Maarten C Buijsman, University of Southern Mississippi, Division of Marine Science, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States and Edward D. Zaron, Portland State University, Portland, OR, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Mattias Green, Bangor University, School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor, United Kingdom
Index Terms:

4217 Coastal processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4544 Internal and inertial waves [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4556 Sea level: variations and mean [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4560 Surface waves and tides [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Cross-Topics:
  • CD - Coastal Dynamics
  • OM - Ocean Modeling
  • RS - Regional Studies

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Oceans Beyond the Solar System (302624)
Rory Barnes, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Astronomy, Seattle, WA, United States
Tides: A Key Driver in the Evolution of Terrestrial Vertebrates? (312143)
Hannah Meenagh Byrne, Bangor University, Menai Bridge, United Kingdom, Mattias Green, Bangor University, School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor, United Kingdom, Per Erik Ahlberg, Uppsala University, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala, Sweden and Steven Andrew Balbus, University of Oxford, Department of Physics, Oxford, United Kingdom
Evidence of changing tides in response to sea-level rise in Chesapeake and Delaware Bays (322420)
Andrew Ross, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States, Raymond Najjar, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology, University Park, PA, United States, Ming Li, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, United States, Serena Blyth Lee, Griffith University, Griffith Climate Change Response Program. Griffith Centre for Coastal Management, Nathan, QLD, Australia, Fan Zhang, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, MD, United States and Wei Liu, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Horn Point Lab, Cambridge, MD, United States
Variability of Internal Tides: A View from Satellite Altimetry (313516)
Richard D Ray, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Edward D. Zaron, Portland State University, Portland, OR, United States
On the Origin and Significance of Energy at the M4 Internal Overtide Frequency in the Pelagic Ocean (323393)
Martin D. Guiles, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, Douglas S Luther, Univ Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, Glenn S Carter, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Oceanography, Honolulu, HI, United States and Mark Merrifield, University of California San Diego, Integrative Oceanography Division, La Jolla, CA, United States
Internal Tide Structure and Variability on the Tasman Slope. (314615)
Olavo Badaro Marques1, Matthew H Alford1, Robert Pinkel2, Jennifer A MacKinnon3, Jonathan D Nash4, Harper L. Simmons5, Dmitry Brazhnikov5, Jody M Klymak6, Amy Frances Waterhouse7 and Samuel Maurice Kelly8, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)Univ California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, (3)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (4)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, (5)School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (6)University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, (7)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (8)University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, United States
Noncoherence of low mode internal tides in the Tasman Sea (Invited) (325301)
Anna Savage, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Amy Frances Waterhouse, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States and Jennifer A MacKinnon, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States
Stability and structure of low mode tidal beam in Tasman Sea (325545)
Dmitry Brazhnikov and Harper L. Simmons, School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, Fairbanks, AK, United States

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