CP11B:
The Dynamics of Buoyancy-Driven Flows in Estuaries, Continental Shelves, and Polar Seas I

Session ID#: 92849

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):
  • HE - High Latitude Environments
  • PS - Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Smaller
Index Terms:

4207 Arctic and Antarctic oceanography [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4217 Coastal processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4219 Continental shelf and slope processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4235 Estuarine processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
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 Joseph T Jurisa, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Piero F Mazzini, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

CP11B-01
Impact of exchange flow on shelf-plume interactions (648709)
Elizabeth Brasseale, University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States and Parker MacCready, University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, United States
CP11B-02
Laboratory investigation on the plume-to-plume interaction on a rotating table (649687)
Yeping Yuan1, Juanjuan Dai1, Alex R Horner-Devine2 and Xu Chen3, (1)Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, (2)University of Washington, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, United States, (3)Ocean University of China, Key Laboratory of Physical Oceanography, Qingdao, China
CP11B-03
Submesoscale Dynamics Revealed by Glider Observations in Central New Zealand (657403)
Khushboo Jhugroo1,2, Joe O'Callaghan1, Craig Stevens1,2, Fiona Elliott1, Mark Hadfield1 and Helen Macdonald1, (1)National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand, (2)University of Auckland, Department of Physics, Auckland, New Zealand
CP11B-04
Wind-Modulated Buoyancy Current Pulses Associated with Outflow from San Francisco Bay (656550)
John L Largier, University of California Davis, Coastal & Marine Sciences Institute, Davis, United States
CP11B-05
Subglacial discharge-driven exchange flow over submarine sills in a glacial fjord: LeConte Bay, Alaska (651393)
Alexander Hager, University of Oregon, Department of Earth Sciences, Eugene, United States, David Sutherland, University of Oregon, Department of Earth Sciences, Eugene, OR, United States, Rebecca H Jackson, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, United States, Christian Kienholz, University of Alaska Southeast, Juneau, United States, Jonathan D Nash, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, Jason M Amundson, University of Alaska Southeast, Juneau, AK, United States and Roman J Motyka, Univ Alaska-Geophysical Inst, Juneau, AK, United States
CP11B-06
Numerical and Theoretical Results Exploring the Potential-Vorticity Dynamics of Coastal Outflows (636144)
Sean Jamshidi and Edward R Johnson, University College London, London, United Kingdom
CP11B-07
Non-geostrophic baroclinic instability in coastal buoyancy-driven flow (648128)
Lixin Qu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Oceanography, Shanghai, China and Robert D Hetland, Texas A&M University, College Station, United States
CP11B-08
On baroclinic instability over continental shelves: Testing the utility of Eady-type models (641395)
Shih-Nan Chen, Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Chiou-Jiu Chen, Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, Taiwan and James A Lerczak, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States
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