CP13B:
The Dynamics of Buoyancy-Driven Flows in Estuaries, Continental Shelves, and Polar Seas III
Session ID#: 92857
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):
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 Sarah N Giddings, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison: Joseph T Jurisa, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, United States
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
River plume mixing and transport in the surf zone (647803)
Samuel Evan Kastner, University of Washington, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States, Alex R Horner-Devine, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Seattle, United States and Jim Thomson, University of Washington, Seattle, United States
Scaling wave-plume interactions in two coastal river discharges (657616)
Alex R Horner-Devine, University of Washington, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, United States, Raul Flores Audibert, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile, Megan E Williams, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile, Samuel Evan Kastner, University of Washington, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States and James M Thomson, Applied Physics Lab (UW), Seattle, United States
Quantifying the Contribution of Fronts to the Mixing Budget of a Tidally Pulsed River Plume Using the T-REMUS Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) (649091)
Nikiforos Delatolas1, Daniel G MacDonald2, James Herbert Leidhold3, Ágata Piffer Braga1, Kelly L Cole4, Kimberly Huguenard5, Michael M Whitney6 and Preston Spicer5, (1)University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA, United States, (2)U Mass/Dartmouth-Est&Ocean Sci, Fairhaven, MA, United States, (3)UMASS Dartmouth, Civil and Environmental Engineering, N. Dartmouth, MA, United States, (4)University of Maine, School of Marine Sciences, Walpole, ME, United States, (5)University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States, (6)University of Connecticut, Marine Sciences, Groton, CT, United States
Dynamics in the near-field region of the Rhine ROFI: a multiple front system (645911)
Lennart Keyzer1, Sabine Rijnsburger1, Julie Pietrzak1, Firmijn Zijl2, Martin Verlaan2,3, Mirjam Snellen4, Cornelis Slobbe5, Raul Flores Audibert6, Alejandro J Souza7 and Alex R Horner-Devine8, (1)Delft University of Technology, Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Delft, Netherlands, (2)Deltares, Delft, Netherlands, (3)Delft University of Technology, Mathematical Physics, Delft, Netherlands, (4)Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft, Netherlands, (5)Delft University of Technology, Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Delft, Netherlands, (6)University of Washington, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, United States, (7)CINVESTAV-IPN, Mérida, YC, Mexico, (8)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Seattle, United States
Multiple Tidal Plume Fronts, Internal Waves and Near Shore Sediment Resuspension (648482)
Julie Pietrzak, Delft University of Technology, Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Delft, Netherlands, Sabine Rijnsburger, TU Delft, Delft, Netherlands, Raul Flores Audibert, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile, Zeinab Safar, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands, Alex R Horner-Devine, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Seattle, United States, Alejandro J Souza, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mérida, YC, Mexico, Kevin G Lamb, Univ Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, Nicole L Jones, University of Western Australia, Oceans Graduate School and Oceans Institute, Crawley, WA, Australia and Claire Chassagne, Delft University of Technology, Hydraulic Engineering, Delft, Netherlands
How Much Plume Water Released During an Ebb Pulse Interacts with the Plume Front? (651888)
Kelly Cole1, Daniel G MacDonald2, Michael M Whitney3, Kimberly Huguenard4, Preston Spicer4, Nikiforos Delatolas5, Ágata Piffer Braga6 and James Herbert Leidhold7, (1)University of Maine, United States, (2)U Mass/Dartmouth-Est&Ocean Sci, Fairhaven, MA, United States, (3)University of Connecticut, Marine Sciences, Groton, CT, United States, (4)University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States, (5)Earth Resources Technology Inc., Silver Spring, MD, United States, (6)University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA, United States, (7)UMASS Dartmouth, Civil and Environmental Engineering, N. Dartmouth, MA, United States
Variability of turbulence in a tidal intrusion front (653622)
Joseph T Jurisa, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, United States, W Rockwell Geyer, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering, Woods Hole, MA, United States, David K Ralston, WHOI, Department of Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, Woods Hole, United States, Andone C Lavery, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, United States, Christopher Bassett, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States and David Honegger, US Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Wainwright, United States
Dynamics of Tidal Intrusion Fronts (651416)
W Rockwell Geyer, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Andone C Lavery, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, United States, Joseph T Jurisa, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, United States, David K Ralston, WHOI, Department of Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, Woods Hole, United States, Malcolm E Scully, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, David Honegger, US Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Wainwright, United States and Christopher Bassett, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
