PL53A:
Ocean Tides: From Planetary to Turbulent Scales II

Session ID#: 92689

Session Description:
This session welcomes talks on the observation and prediction of surface and internal tides on Earth or other planets. Tides impact many aspects of the ocean sciences. The dissipation of tidal energy may influence climate by driving vertical fluxes balancing deep-water formation at high latitudes. The associated mixing is also key for sustaining primary production in the ocean, and surface tides may drive evolutionary process near the coastal boundary where tidal ranges are large. Recently, the combination of accelerated sea-level rise and spring tides has resulted in “Sunny-weather flooding” in some coastal locations. While much progress has been made in predicting surface and internal tides in numerical models, internal tides are still more difficult to predict than surface tides because the relatively short-length scale internal tides are easily refracted and scattered by the mesoscale background flows. There is great potential to improve their predictability by assimilating observed mesoscale fields, improving gravity wave damping schemes, and increasing model resolution. Ultimately, this will benefit operational forecasting and allow for the removal of the tides from altimetry collected in the upcoming Surface Water Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • CP - Coastal and Estuarine Processes
  • OM - Ocean Modeling
  • PI - Physical-Biological Interactions
Index Terms:

4263 Ocean predictability and prediction [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4544 Internal and inertial waves [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4560 Surface waves and tides [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4568 Turbulence, diffusion, and mixing processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Primary Chair:  Maarten C Buijsman, University of Southern Mississippi, Division of Marine Science, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States
Co-chairs:  Mattias Green, Bangor University, School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor, LL59, United Kingdom, Zhongxiang Zhao, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States and Sophie-Berenice Wilmes, Bangor University, Menai Bridge, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Maarten C Buijsman, University of Southern Mississippi, Division of Marine Science, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States
Moderators:  Maarten C Buijsman, University of Southern Mississippi, Division of Marine Science, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States and Mattias Green, Bangor University, School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor, LL59, United Kingdom
Student Paper Review Liaisons:  Maarten C Buijsman, University of Southern Mississippi, Division of Marine Science, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States and Mattias Green, Bangor University, School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor, LL59, United Kingdom

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

PL53A-01
Internal tides at the coast: interpreting baroclinic energy flux in the presence of coastal trapped waves (653666)
Ruth C Musgrave, Dalhousie University, Department of Oceanography, Halifax, NS, Canada and James A Lerczak, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States
PL53A-02
Stationary Internal Tides Observed in a Steep, Reflective, Coastal Submarine Canyon (652260)
Madeleine Marie Hamann1, Matthew Alford2, Drew J. Lucas3, Amy Frances Waterhouse4 and Arnaud Aleboyer4, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Physical Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, United States, (3)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (4)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States
PL53A-03
Scattering of the M2 Internal Tide in a Selection of Continental Slope Canyons (651052)
Robert Nazarian, Fairfield University, Physics, Fairfield, CT, United States, Sonya Legg, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, Madeleine Marie Hamann, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Physical Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States and Amy Frances Waterhouse, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States
PL53A-04
The Evolution of Superharmonics Excited by Internal Tides in Non-Uniform Stratification (650290)
Lois Baker, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom and Bruce R Sutherland, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
PL53A-05
Latitude dependence of the fate of internal tide beams (655903)
Sherry Chou1, Glenn S Carter1, Eric Firing2, Nicolas Grisouard3, Martin D. Guiles4, Douglas S Luther5, Mark A Merrifield6, Brian Powell7 and Chantal Staquet8, (1)University of Hawaii, Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (2)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Oceanography, Honolulu, HI, United States, (3)University of Toronto, Physics, Toronto, ON, Canada, (4)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (5)Univ Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (6)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (7)Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States, (8)Laboratoire des Écoulements Géophysiques et Industriels, Grenoble, France
PL53A-06
Internal tide mapping and predictability in an idealized configuration (645569)
Aurelien Ponte, CNRS-IFREMER-IRD-UBO, LOPS, Plouzané, France, Noe Lahaye, LOPS, IUEM, University of Brest, Brest, France, Zoé Caspar-Cohen, Ifremer, Plouzané, France and Sylvie Le Gentil, Laboratoire de Physique des Océans, Brest, France
PL53A-07
Internal tides in the California Current System: characterizing non-stationarity at the sub-mesoscale using a novel tidal harmonic analysis package (656249)
Luke Kachelein1, Prof. Sarah T Gille, PhD2, Bruce D Cornuelle3, Matthew R Mazloff2 and Eric J Terrill4, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States, (2)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, United States, (3)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (4)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States
PL53A-08
Reveal of Dynamics of Barotropic Exchange between the Sea of Okhotsk and North Pacific through Tidal Forcing in High-Resolution Ocean General Circulation Model: the Modification of the Western Boundary Current Pathway by Tidal Rectification (650438)
Hung Wei Shu, Hokkaido University, Pan-Okhotsk Research Center, Institute of Low-Temperature Sciecne, Sapporo, Japan, Humio Mitsudera, Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, Kaihe Yamazaki, National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan, Takao Kawasaki, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, the University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan, Hideharu Sasaki, JAMSTEC, Yokohama, Japan, Tomohiro Nakamura, Hokkaido Univ, Sapporo, Japan and Hatsumi Nishikawa, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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