E44A:
The Dynamics of Estuaries and Coastal Buoyancy-Driven Flows VI Posters


Session ID#: 38015

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:  Sarah N Giddings, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, United States, 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
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:

The Combined Influences of Rotation and Curvature on Secondary Flow Dynamics in the Hudson River Estuary (303415)
Margaret Conley, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, United States and James A Lerczak, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
Winter counter-wind transport in the inner southwestern Yellow Sea (305362)
Hui WU1, Jinghua Gu2 and Ping Zhu2, (1)East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, (2)East China Normal University, China
Optimal-Detail Circulation Model for Fjords and Sea Lochs : An Application to the Puget Sound (309046)
Soizic Garnier1, Neil Banas1 and Parker MacCready2, (1)University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom, (2)Univ. Washington, Olympia, WA, United States
On the Momentum Balance of Tampa Bay (309189)
Jing Chen1, Robert H Weisberg2, Yonggang Liu2 and Lianyuan Zheng3, (1)University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL, United States, (2)University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, St. Petersburg, FL, United States, (3)NOAA-NOS, Silver Spring, MD, United States
The Influence of Smaller, Connecting Channels on Estuarine Exchange Flow (312520)
Ted Conroy, University of Oregon, Department of Earth Science, Eugene, OR, United States, David Sutherland, University of Oregon, Department of Earth Sciences, Eugene, OR, United States and David K Ralston, WHOI, Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Impacts of Convergence Zones on Lagrangian Structure Function Statistics in the Gulf of Mexico (314137)
Jenna Palmer1, Baylor Fox-Kemper1, Roy Barkan2, Jun Choi3, Annalisa Bracco4 and James C McWilliams2, (1)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, (2)UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, GA, United States, (4)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States
Tidal and Residual Circulation in a Multiple-inlet Deltaic System (318736)
Braulio Juarez, University of Florida, Civil and Coastal Engineering, Gainesville, FL, United States, Sangdon So, University of Florida, Civil and Coastal Engineering, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States and Arnoldo Valle-Levinson, University of Florida, Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, Gainesville, FL, United States
Circulation in Port Valdez, Alaska measured by Lagrangian Drifter Experiments, towed ADCP and hydrographic profiles in June and September 2016, and March 2017 (321250)
Shelton M Gay III, Prince William Sound Science Center, Physical Oceanography, Cordova, AK, United States
Dredging Influences on Stratification and Flushing Times in Norwalk River Hypoxic Areas (321279)
Steven Raymond Deignan-Schmidt1, Michael M Whitney2, Yan Jia2 and Christina Menniti3, (1)University of Connecticut, Department of Marine Sciences, Groton, CT, United States, (2)University of Connecticut, Marine Sciences, Groton, CT, United States, (3)University of Connecticut, Groton, CT, United States
Space and time variability of surface currents in Central San Francisco Bay: observations from long-term HF radar measurements (325313)
Cassia Pianca1, Piero Luigi F Mazzini1, John L Largier2 and Newell Garfield III3, (1)San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, United States, (2)University of California Davis, Coastal & Marine Sciences Institute, Davis, CA, United States, (3)NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, CA, United States
Wind-driven response in a narrow deep-silled fjord using ROMS (326771)
Di Wan, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Sidney, BC, Canada; University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

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