PS52A:
Boundary Currents and Shelf/Deep-Ocean Exchange II
Session ID#: 92587
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):
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: Robert E Todd, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Amandine Schaeffer, University of New South Wales, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Student Paper Review Liaison: Catherine Richardson Edwards, Skidaway Institute of Oceanogr, Savannah, GA, United States
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Shelf-Deep Ocean Exchange in the East Australian Current (647481)
Moninya Roughan1,2, Amandine Schaeffer3, Matthew Archer4, Paulna Cetina Heredia2, Steefan Contractor2, Shane R Keating5, Colette Gabrielle Kerry6, Michael Hemming5, Neil Malan7 and Adil Siripatana2, (1)New Zealand Meteorological Service (MetService), MetOcean Division, Auckland, New Zealand, (2)University of New South Wales, Coastal and Regional Oceanography Lab, School of Maths and Statistics, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (3)University of New South Wales, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (5)University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (6)University of New South Wales, Coastal and Regional Oceanography Lab, School of Biological Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (7)University of New South Wales, Climate Change Research Centre, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Cross-shelf exchange driven by dipole eddy structures in the East Australian Current. (649137)
Neil Malan1, Matthew Archer2, Moninya Roughan3, Paulna Cetina Heredia4, Amandine Schaeffer5, Michael Hemming6, Eduardo Vitarelli6 and Carlos Rocha6, (1)University of New South Wales, Climate Change Research Centre, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (3)University of New South Wales, Coastal and Regional Oceanography Lab, School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (4)University of New South Wales, Coastal and Regional Oceanography Lab, School of Maths and Statistics, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (5)University of New South Wales, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (6)University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Seasonal Characteristics of the Circulation Structure in the Northern Red Sea and Their Relationship with the Thermohaline and Wind Forcing (641410)
Lina Eyouni, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Red Sea Research Center (RSRC), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, Zoi Kokkini, CNR-ISMAR, Lerici, Italy, Nikolaos Zarokanellos, Balearic Islands Coastal Observing and Forecasting System (SOCIB), Palma de Mallorca, Spain and Burton H Jones, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Red Sea Research Center, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
Effects of the seasonal reversal of the South China Sea western boundary current on the Gulf of Tonkin dynamics (652076)
Javier Zavala-garay1, John Wilkin2, Peter Rogowski3, Eric Terrill3, Kipp Kipp Shearman4 and Tran Hong Lam5, (1)Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (2)Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (3)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (4)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, (5)Center for Oceanography, Vietnam Administration of Seas and Island, Hanoi, Vietnam
Seasonal and interannual variability in the poleward undercurrent off the US West Coast: inferences from observations and a high-resolution regional ocean model (639359)
Alexander L Kurapov, NOAA National Ocean Service, Office of Coast Survey, Silver Spring, MD, United States, John A Barth, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, Jennifer L. Fisher, Oregon State University, Cooperative Institute of Marine Resources Studies, Newport, OR, United States and Daniel L Rudnick, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Cross-shore Advection by Subthermocline Eddies (649183)
Alice S Ren, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Physical Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States and Daniel L Rudnick, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
