PS43A:
Boundary Currents and Shelf/Deep-Ocean Exchange I

Session ID#: 92583

Session Description:
The environmental health and societal uses of the coastal ocean are impacted not only by human activities on land but also by coastal to open-ocean exchange at the edge of the continental shelf – processes strongly influenced by energetic shelf-edge boundary currents. Boundary currents are themselves significant in global budgets of heat, freshwater and biogeochemical constituents, and are regions of strong air-sea interaction and frontal instabilities. Processes that exchange waters across the edge of the continental shelf are key controllers of coastal ocean water properties, including heat, freshwater, nutrients, and pollutants, thereby playing significant roles in coastal ecosystem dynamics. This session will explore processes that drive exchange across the continental shelf and slope, particularly where boundary currents are significant drivers of exchange, and potential topics include seasonal cycles and inter-annual variability, extreme events, submesoscale processes, and linkages to ecosystems. Observational, numerical, and theoretical efforts are welcome, with results from integrated model-observation systems particularly encouraged.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • CP - Coastal and Estuarine Processes
  • PI - Physical-Biological Interactions
  • PL - Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Larger
Index Terms:

4217 Coastal processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4219 Continental shelf and slope processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4516 Eastern boundary currents [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4576 Western boundary currents [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Primary Chair:  Robert E Todd, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Co-chairs:  Amandine Schaeffer, University of New South Wales, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Catherine Richardson Edwards, Skidaway Institute of Oceanogr, Savannah, GA, United States and Matthew Archer, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
Primary Liaison:  Robert E Todd, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Moderators:  Catherine Richardson Edwards, Skidaway Institute of Oceanogr, Savannah, GA, United States and Matthew Archer, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Matthew Archer, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

PS43A-01
Impact of regional and temporal changes in the Agulhas Current’s course on coastal and shelf regions. (647530)
Marjolaine Krug, Department of Environmental Affairs Oceans and Coasts, Cape Town 8012, South Africa and Laura Braby, University of Cape Town, Department of Oceanography, Cape Town, South Africa
PS43A-02
Deep Ocean Interactions with the West Florida Shelf: the Role of the “Pressure Point” on Both Across Shelf Transport and the Penetration of the Loop Current into the Gulf of Mexico (653321)
Yonggang Liu, University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, St. Petersburg, United States and Robert H Weisberg, University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, St. Petersburg, FL, United States
PS43A-03
Transport and Modification of Water Masses within the Gulf Stream from Underwater Glider Observations (654143)
Joleen Heiderich1,2 and Robert E Todd1, (1)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
PS43A-04
Warm Spiral Streamers over Gulf Stream Warm-Core Rings (647886)
Weifeng Gordon Zhang, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Dennis Joseph McGillicuddy Jr, Woods Hole Oeanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
PS43A-05
Gulf Stream Position, Width, and Orientation Estimates with HF Radar off Cape Hatteras, N.C. (642303)
Mike Muglia, University of North Carolina Coastal Studies Insitute, Wanchese, United States, Harvey Seim, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Earth, Marine, and Environmental Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States and Sara Haines, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Earth, Marine, and Environmental Sciences, Chapel Hill, United States
PS43A-06
A subsurface shelf water export event at Cape Hatteras in January 2018 (652045)
Lu Han, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Marine Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, Harvey Seim, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Earth, Marine, and Environmental Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, John Bane, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States and Robert E Todd, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States
PS43A-07
Shelf-deep ocean exchange at Cape Hatteras from two years of underwater glider observations (643327)
Robert E Todd, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States
PS43A-08
Atmospheric Forcing of the Hatteras Coastal Ocean during PEACH (643120)
John Bane, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, Harvey Seim, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Earth, Marine, and Environmental Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, Sara Haines, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Earth, Marine, and Environmental Sciences, Chapel Hill, United States, Ruoying He, North Carolina State University, Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, Raleigh, United States, Joseph B Zambon, NC State University, Raleigh, United States and Glen Gawarkiewicz, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
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