CP33C:
The Inner Shelf: Impacts of Interconnected Processes I

Session ID#: 92861

Session Description:
The inner shelf, which extends from the surfzone to about 50m depth, is a region with complex dynamics and high ecological importance. Water properties and suspended material---including temperature, salinity, nutrients, sediments, and biota---are mixed and advected by wind-driven currents, surface waves, barotropic tides, submesoscale eddies, and nonlinear internal waves. In this relatively shallow region, surface and bottom boundary layers frequently overlap and topographic features play a critical role in the dynamics. Disentangling how different temporal and spatial scales contribute to variability in this region is key to understanding the relative importance of interconnected processes. For example, the variability of stratification and temperature on the shelf is modulated by processes including upwelling, internal waves, and headland-flow interactions that evolve on timescales of hours to days while also having cumulative impacts on seasonal and interannual timescales. This session invites new findings on the physical drivers of circulation, transport, cross-shelf exchange, and temporal variability on the inner shelf over event-, tidal-, low-frequency, and interannual timescales and a range of spatial scales.  Studies focused on regions removed from freshwater-driven systems are encouraged.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • IS - Ocean Observatories, Instrumentation and Sensing Technologies
  • OM - Ocean Modeling
  • PS - Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Smaller
Index Terms:

4520 Eddies and mesoscale processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4544 Internal and inertial waves [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4546 Nearshore processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4568 Turbulence, diffusion, and mixing processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Primary Chair:  Jacqueline McSweeney, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States
Co-chairs:  Emily P Lemagie, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, United States, Melissa Moulton, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States and Amy Frances Waterhouse, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jacqueline McSweeney, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States
Moderators:  Emily P Lemagie, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States and Melissa Moulton, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics, Boulder, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Emily P Lemagie, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

CP33C-01
Submesoscale Dynamics over the Continental Shelf: Drivers and Implications for Across-Shelf Exchange (642074)
Anthony Kirincich, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Pierre J Flament, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States and Victoria Futch, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Oceanography, HI
CP33C-02
Diapycnal mixing and turbulence dissipation over the Inner Shelf. (653975)
Johannes Becherer1, Jim Moum2, John Colosi3, James A Lerczak1, Jennifer A MacKinnon4, Jacqueline McSweeney5, André Palóczy6 and Amy Frances Waterhouse4, (1)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)Oregon State University, College of Earth Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, Corvalis, OR, United States, (3)Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, United States, (4)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (5)Rutgers University, (6)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Physical Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
CP33C-03
Along-coast Variability of Internal Wave Energy on the Inner Shelf (654554)
Jacqueline McSweeney1, James A Lerczak1, Jack A Barth2, Jennifer A MacKinnon3, Amy Frances Waterhouse3, Nirnimesh Kumar4, Jim Moum5, Johannes Becherer1 and John Colosi6, (1)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)Oregon State University, Marine Studies Initiative, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (4)University of Washington, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States, (5)Oregon State Univ, Corvallis, OR, United States, (6)Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, United States
CP33C-04
Spatiotemporal variations of cross-shelf exchanges in the Gulf of Maine (640731)
Huijie Xue1, Zhengui Wang1, Denghui Li2, Andrew Thomas1 and Philip Yund3, (1)University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States, (2)University of Maine, School of Marine Sciences, Orono, United States, (3)Downeast Institute, Beals, ME, United States
CP33C-05
Spatio-temporal variability of cross-shelf transport in Mississippi Bight (649485)
Mustafa Kemal Cambazoglu, University of Southern Mississippi, Marine Science, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, Jeremy David Wiggert, The University of Southern Mississippi, Division of Marine Science, Stennis Space Center, United States, Michael S Dinniman, Old Dominion University, Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, Norfolk, VA, United States and Brandy N Armstrong, USGS, Falmouth, MA, United States
CP33C-06
Observations of nonlinear momentum fluxes over the inner shelf (656054)
Thomas Connolly, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Moss Landing, CA, United States and Steven J Lentz, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Woods Hole, United States
CP33C-07
Transport and Mixing by Shoaling Waves of Elevation (649728)
Nicole L Jones1, Gregory N Ivey1, Matt Rayson1, Cynthia Bluteau2 and Samuel Maurice Kelly3, (1)University of Western Australia, Oceans Graduate School and Oceans Institute, Crawley, WA, Australia, (2)Université du Quebec à Rimouski, Institut des sciences de la mer, Rimouski, QC, Canada, (3)University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, United States
CP33C-08
Transient Rip-Current Exchange Across the Inner-Shelf Modulated by Diurnal Heating/Cooling. (646706)
Derek Jeffrey Grimes1, Falk Feddersen2, Nirnimesh Kumar3 and Sarah N Giddings2,4, (1)University of North Carolina Wilmington, Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography, United States, (2)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (3)University of Washington, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States, (4)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States
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