CP24F:
The Dynamics of Buoyancy-Driven Flows in Estuaries, Continental Shelves, and Polar Seas V Posters
Session ID#: 85000
Session Description:
Freshwater entering estuaries and the coastal ocean influences physical and biogeochemical processes that take place at the interface between terrestrial and oceanic environments. Understanding mixing and dynamics of these flows are key to predict how materials and substances are delivered to continental shelves and the deep ocean, and how they may impact marine ecosystems. The dynamics of buoyancy-driven flows are complex and influenced by a number of factors, including freshwater discharge, winds, waves, tides, ambient currents, stratification and bathymetry. 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. The multi-scale nature of these flows provides great challenges from both an observational and modeling standpoint. Modern technological advances have allowed recent progress in monitoring and understanding the dynamics of these flows, which are fundamental for the proper management of ecologically and socially relevant coastal regions. We welcome submissions that investigate the wide spectrum of scales of buoyancy-driven flows in estuaries, continental shelves and polar regions, using observational, numerical, remote sensing, laboratory and theoretical approaches.
Co-Sponsor(s):
Primary Chair: Piero F Mazzini, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA, United States
Co-chairs: Sarah N Giddings, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Rebecca H Jackson, Rutgers University, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, New Brunswick, United States and Joseph T Jurisa, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, United States
Primary Liaison: Piero F Mazzini, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA, United States
Moderators: Piero F Mazzini, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA, United States and Rebecca H Jackson, WHOI, Woods Hole, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison: Rebecca H Jackson, WHOI, Woods Hole, United States
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
The Cooling Box Problem: Lab and Field Measurements (656256)
Jason Olsthoorn1, Edmund W Tedford2 and Gregory A Lawrence2, (1)University of British Columbia, Civil Engineering, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (2)University of British Columbia, Department of Civil Engineering, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Discharge plume dynamics at a tidewater glacier: linking upwelling plumes to the downstream exchange flow (654294)
Rebecca H Jackson1, Jonathan D Nash2, Eric D Skyllingstad3, David Sutherland4, Emily Eidam5, Christian Kienholz6, Jason M Amundson6, Erin C Pettit7 and Roman J Motyka8, (1)Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, United States, (2)Oregon State University, Corvallis, United States, (3)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (4)University of Oregon, Department of Earth Sciences, Eugene, OR, United States, (5)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, (6)University of Alaska Southeast, Juneau, AK, United States, (7)Oregon State, Corvallis, Oregon, United States, (8)Univ Alaska-Geophysical Inst, Juneau, AK, United States
A Study of the Gulf of St. Lawrence Water Masses in Response to Atmospheric Forcing and Model Resolution Using Quasi-Operational Canadian Coastal Ice-Ocean Prediction Systems (646922)
Francois Roy1, Dr. Jean-Philippe Paquin, PhD2, Gregory Smith2, Audrey-Anne Gauthier3, Sarah MacDermid4, Simon St-Onge Drouin5, Simon Senneville6, Frederic Dupont7 and Jerome Chanut8, (1)Environment and Climate Change Canada, Meteorological Research Division, Dorval, QC, Canada, (2)Meteorological Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Dorval, QC, Canada, (3)McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, (4)Meteorological Service of Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Halifax, NS, Canada, (5)Institut Maurice-Lamontagne, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Mont-Joli, QC, Canada, (6)UQAR-ISMER, Rimouski, QC, Canada, (7)Meteorological Service of Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Dorval, QC, Canada, (8)Mercator Ocean International, Ramonville Saint-Agne, France
Modeling the impact of sill depth on glacier submarine melting in narrow fjords (651875)
Weiyang Bao, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States and Carlos F Moffat, University of Delaware, College of Earth, Ocean and Environment, Newark, DE, United States
The Dynamics of Uniformly Stratified Flow over Sills, with Application to Coastal Oceanic Flows (642708)
Peter George Baines1, Leon Chan2 and Jimmy Philip2, (1)University of Melbourne, Infrastructure Engineering, Parkville, VIC, Australia, (2)Melbourne University, Mechanical Engineering, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Observations and modeling of the horizontal evolution and intertidal variability of a tidal intrusion front (644450)
David Honegger, Oregon State University, School of Civil & Construction Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States, Malcolm E Scully, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Merrick C Haller, Oregon State University, School of Civil and Construction Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States, Randall Pittman, Oregon State University, School of Civil and Construction Engineering, Corvallis, United States, Annika O'Dea, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Duck, United States and Alexandra J Simpson, Oregon State University, Civil & Construction Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States
Observations of Instabilities Along an Intruding Flood Front via sUAS on the James River (652386)
Merrick C Haller, Oregon State University, Civil Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States, Alexandra J Simpson, Oregon State University, Civil & Construction Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States and James M Thomson, Applied Physics Lab (UW), Seattle, United States
Turbulence Observations in a Macrotidal Estuary with Five Beam Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (646642)
Laurent Amoudry1, Megan E Williams2, Alejandro J Souza3 and Xiaoyan Wei1, (1)National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool, United Kingdom, (2)Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile, (3)CINVESTAV-IPN, Mérida, YC, Mexico
Dispersion in bar-built estuaries (657489)
Megan E Williams1, Raul Flores Audibert1, Alex R Horner-Devine2 and Mark T Stacey3, (1)Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Departamento de Obras Civiles, Valparaíso, Chile, (2)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Seattle, United States, (3)Univ California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Exchange through a back-barrier estuary inlet with complex bathymetry (656726)
Anna Pfeiffer-Herbert, Stockton University, Galloway, United States, Nicole Ertle, Stockton University, Marine Science, Galloway, NJ, United States and Jaclynne Polcino, Stockton University, Marine Science, Galloway, United States
Enhanced exchange flow during spring tide and its cause in the Sumjin River estuary, Korea (644576)
EunByeol Cho, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, South Korea and Yang-Ki Cho, Seoul National University, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul, South Korea
Secondary circulation in a low-inflow, seasonally inverse estuary (655361)
Angelica R Rodriguez1, Sarah N Giddings2, Suzanne Graham3 and Jessica Bredvik3, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, United States, (2)University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (3)Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific, San Diego, CA, United States
Salinity Intrusion in the Rhine Meuse Delta: Estuarine Circulation or Tidal Dispersion? (654953)
Wouter Kranenburg1, Theo van der Kaaij2, Ymkje Huismans1 and Meinard Tiessen3, (1)Deltares, Marine and Coastal Systems, Delft, Netherlands, (2)Deltares, Environmental Hydrodynamics, Delft, Netherlands, (3)Deltares, Marine and Coastal Systems, Netherlands
Variability in estuarine vertical mixing and its impact on suspended sediment flux in weakly stratified estuaries (635997)
Xiaoyan Wei1, Megan Williams1,2, Henk M. Schuttelaars3, Jennifer M. Brown1, Peter D Thorne1 and Laurent Amoudry1, (1)National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool, United Kingdom, (2)Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile, (3)Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics, Delft, Netherlands
