CD33B:
Resolving Temporal (Hours-Days) and Spatial (100s m) Scales of Oceanographic Processes I


Session ID#: 37751

Session Description:
Understanding regional- and global-scale variability in aquatic ecosystems requires resolution of processes occurring at high temporal frequencies and spatial scales. This is especially true in coastal regions where short-term physical forcings (e.g., sunlight, river discharge, meteorology, tides, etc.) combine to affect biological and biogeochemical processes. In the open ocean, processes such as vertical mixing, primary production, blooms, etc., vary at sub-diurnal to weekly timeframe. Coupled physical-biogeochemical models provide information from short- to long-term temporal scales and moderate (~km) to coarse (~hundreds km) spatial scales, but parameterization and evaluation of models requires field measurements and satellite data that are not typically available at short time scales. Furthermore, scaling-up observations across time and space to address broader regional or global topics (e.g., IPCC assessments) can lead to high uncertainties if the observations are not available at sufficient resolution. Papers addressing ecological, biogeochemical or physical processes including land-ocean and air-sea interactions that vary at high temporal frequency or spatial scales are welcomed. The breadth of studies of interest could include any of the following: field observations, modeling studies, or remote sensing data from airborne sensors and satellite platforms such as geostationary ocean color sensors, to span the temporal and spatial scales needed.
Primary Chair:  Antonio Mannino, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Ocean Ecology Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States
Co-chairs:  Wonkook Kim, Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Korea Ocean Satellite Center, Busan, South Korea, Jianwei Wei, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, United States and Joseph Salisbury II, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
Moderators:  Jianwei Wei, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, United States and Joseph Salisbury II, University of New Hamsphire, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Wonkook Kim, KIOST Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Korea Ocean Satellite Center, Busan, South Korea
Index Terms:

4273 Physical and biogeochemical interactions [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4275 Remote sensing and electromagnetic processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4805 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
4858 Population dynamics and ecology [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
Cross-Topics:
  • BN - Biogeochemistry and Nutrients
  • E - Estuarine Processes
  • OM - Ocean Modeling
  • PS - Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Smaller

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Temporal and spatial dynamics of atmospheric trace gases and aerosols in South Korean coastal waters, and impacts on satellite retrievals of coastal ocean processes (322850)
Maria Tzortziou, CUNY City College of New York, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, New York, NY, United States, Brian Lamb, CUNY City College of New York, Dept. of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, New York, NY, United States, Owen Parker, CUNY City College of New York, New York, NY, United States and Nader Abuhassan, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Diel cycles of optical and biogeochemical parameters across mesoscale features (307509)
Fernanda Henderikx Freitas, United States and Angelicque E White, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
Carbon budget of a shallow, lagoonal estuary: transformations and source-sink dynamics along the river-estuary-ocean continuum (325343)
Joseph Crosswell, CSIRO, Oceans and Atmosphere, Brisbane, Australia, Iris C Anderson, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA, United States and Bryce Van Dam, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Institute of Marine Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Controls on Planktonic Dynamics in the Mississippi Bight by Estuarine-Shelf Exchange Processes (324803)
Jeremy David Wiggert1, Chudong Pan2, Michael S Dinniman3, Yee Lau4, Patrick J Fitzpatrick4, Stephan J O'Brien2, Courtney Bouchard1, Lauren Michelle Quas1, Travis N Miles5, Mustafa Kemal Cambazoglu2, Steven Louis Dykstra6, Brian Dzwonkowski6, Gregg Arthur Jacobs7, Ian Church8 and Eileen E Hofmann3, (1)University of Southern Mississippi, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (2)The University of Southern Mississippi, Division of Marine Science, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (3)Old Dominion University, Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, Norfolk, VA, United States, (4)Mississippi State University, Geosystems Research Institute, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (5)Rutgers University, Marine and Coastal Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (6)Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, AL, United States, (7)Naval Research Lab Stennis Space Center, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (8)University of New Brunswick, Department of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering, Fredericton, NB, Canada
Diurnal changes of cyanobacteria blooms in Taihu Lake from GOCI observations (318215)
Lin Qi, Xiamen University, United States, Chuanmin Hu, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL, United States and Ronghua Ma, Nanjing Institute Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Science, Nanjing, China

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