CP21D:
Hydrodynamics and Morphodynamics of Tropical Estuaries and Deltas eLightning

Session ID#: 85448

Session Description:
Hydrodynamics and morphodynamics at estuaries and deltas play a major role in global hydrological and biochemical cycles. In tropical regions, they provide invaluable economic and ecosystem services but are very sensitive to changes caused by the development they foster. Tropical estuaries and deltas include integrated land-ocean systems associated with large rivers and productive transition environments, with important quantities of water and sediment discharged to the ocean. The understanding of their circulation and morphodynamic variability, which constitutes a top priority at institutions worldwide, not only provides tools for a rational management of their services such as navigation and tourism. Studying tropical deltas and estuaries also allows the mitigation of inland pollution and sediments delivered to the coastal zone. This session invites studies addressing the hydrodynamics and morphodynamics of tropical deltas and estuaries, with attention to current challenges in an era of expanding population, changing climate, and increasing inland stressors.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • PS - Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Smaller
Index Terms:

4217 Coastal processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4235 Estuarine processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4251 Marine pollution [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4568 Turbulence, diffusion, and mixing processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Primary Chair:  Juan Felipe Paniagua-Arroyave, University of Colorado, INSTAAR, Boulder, United States; Florida State University, Deparment of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Tallahassee, United States
Co-chairs:  Juan Darío Restrepo Sr, Universidad EAFIT, Earth Sciences, Medellin, Colombia and Arnoldo Valle-Levinson, University of Florida, Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, Gainesville, United States
Primary Liaison:  Juan Felipe Paniagua-Arroyave, University of Colorado, INSTAAR, Boulder, United States; Florida State University, Deparment of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Tallahassee, United States
Moderators:  Juan Felipe Paniagua-Arroyave, University of Colorado, INSTAAR, Boulder, United States; Florida State University, Deparment of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Tallahassee, United States and Juan Darío Restrepo Sr, Universidad EAFIT, Earth Sciences, Medellin, Colombia
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Juan Felipe Paniagua-Arroyave, University of Colorado, INSTAAR, Boulder, United States; Florida State University, Deparment of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Tallahassee, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
CP21D-01
Circulation and Suspended Sediment Concentrations in a Highly Stratified Estuary in the Caribbean Sea (Invited) (654056)
Liliana Velasquez Montoya, United States Naval Academy, Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering Department, Annapolis, MD, United States and Carlos A Escobar, Universidad EAFIT, Departamento de Ingenieria Civil, Medellin, Colombia
 
CP21D-02
Sediment Pollution Impacts in The Coastal Zone of Cartagena Bay, Colombia: Monitoring, Modelling and Management (641536)
Marko Tosic1, Juan Darío Restrepo Sr1, Flávio Martins2, Serguei Lonin3 and Alfredo Izquierdo4, (1)Universidad EAFIT, Earth Sciences, Medellin, Colombia, (2)Universidade do Algarve, Portugal, (3)Escuela Naval de Cadetes “Almirante Padilla”, Colombia, (4)Universidad de Cádiz, Applied Physics, Cadiz, Spain
 
CP21D-03
Eliminating the effect of artificial ponding in salt marsh flooding and draining (647305)
Mithun Deb, University of Delaware, Center for Applied Coastal Research, Newark, DE, United States, James T Kirby Jr, University of Delaware, Center for Applied Coastal Research, Newark, United States, Fengyan Shi, University of Delaware, Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, Newark, United States and Ali Abdolali, NOAA Environmental Modeling Center, College Park, MD, United States
 
CP21D-05
Simulation of Freshwater Transport and controls on salt intrusion in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) delta (641565)
Yujuan Sun1, Lucy Bricheno1, Kevin Horsburgh2 and Marta Payo Payo1, (1)National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool, United Kingdom, (2)Green Climate Fund, Incheon, South Korea
 
CP21D-06
Salt Balance Evolution during the Monsoon Onset: a Case Study in the Pearl River Delta (China) (645943)
Marta Payo Payo1, Lucy Bricheno1, Weicong Cheng2, Wenping Gong3 and Laurent Amoudry1, (1)National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool, United Kingdom, (2)Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Department of Ocean Science, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, (3)Sun Yat-Sen University, School of Marine Sciences, Guangzhou, China
 
CP21D-07
Physical mechanisms of hypoxic events and temperature inversions in Bahia Almirante, a shallow tropical embayment in Bocas del Toro, Panama (639329)
Anne Elizabeth Adelson, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, Kristen A Davis, University of California Irvine, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Irvine, CA, United States, Sarah N Giddings, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Rachel Collin, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Calzada de Amador, Panama, Victoria Reed, McGill University, QC, Canada, Andrew Altieri, University of Florida, Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences, Gainesville, United States and Geno R Pawlak, University of California San Diego, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, La Jolla, CA, United States
 
CP21D-08
Sediment-Transport Pathways in Estuarine Channels With Lateral Bathymetric Variation (641643)
Jian Zhou and Mark T Stacey, University of California Berkeley, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
CP21D-10
Fluvial fluxes from the Magdalena River into Cartagena Bay, Caribbean Colombia: Trends, future scenarios, and connections with upstream human impacts (641628)
Juan Darío Restrepo Sr and Marko Tosic, Universidad EAFIT, Earth Sciences, Medellin, Colombia
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