CP41B:
The Inner Shelf: Impacts of Interconnected Processes II

Session ID#: 92865

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:  Amy Frances Waterhouse, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States and Jacqueline McSweeney, Rutgers University
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Amy Frances Waterhouse, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

CP41B-01
Overtides at the Inner Shelf Offshore of a Cape During Extreme Atmospheric Forcing (639371)
Juan Felipe Paniagua-Arroyave, University of Colorado, INSTAAR, Boulder, United States, Arnoldo Valle-Levinson, University of Florida, Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, Gainesville, United States, Sabrina Marie Parra, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, United States and Peter N Adams, University of Florida, Department of Geological Sciences, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States
CP41B-02
High Resolution Internal Wave Tracking via Remote Sensing with Comparison to In-Situ Measurements (647844)
Alexandra J Simpson1, Merrick C Haller2, Jacqueline McSweeney3 and James A Lerczak3, (1)Oregon State University, Civil & Construction Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)Oregon State University, School of Civil and Construction Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States
CP41B-03
Vorticity Dynamics near a Rocky Headland on the Inner-Shelf (647299)
Michael Kovatch, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Falk Feddersen, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, Luc Lenain, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States and Jim Thomson, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Air-Sea Interaction and Remote Sensing, Seattle, United States
CP41B-04
Atmospheric forcing controls cross-shelf exchange and bay-scale circulation in Hudson Bay (638572)
Igor A Dmitrenko1, Sergei Kirillov1, Jennifer Verlaine Lukovich2, David Babb3, Denis Volkov4, Alexander Komarov5, Jens K Ehn1, Kevin Sydor6 and David G Barber3, (1)University of Manitoba, Centre for Earth Observation Science, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, (2)University of Manitoba, Centre for Earth Observation Science (CEOS) Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, (3)University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, (4)Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies Miami, Miami, FL, United States, (5)Environment and Climate Change Canada, Data Assimilation and Satellite Meteorology Research Section, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (6)Manitoba Hydro, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
CP41B-05
Subtidal to Infra-Gravity Variability of Turbulent Stresses in a Mid-Latitude Stratified Inner-Shelf (640724)
André Palóczy1, Jennifer A MacKinnon2 and Amy Frances Waterhouse2, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Physical Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States
CP41B-06
Circulation and thermal structure on the northern Omani shelf (657911)
Gerd Bruss1, Dawood Al-Yahyai2, Wenresti Gallardo2 and Michel Claereboudt2, (1)Sultan Qaboos University, Department of Marine Science and Fisheries, Muscat, Oman, (2)Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman
CP41B-07
What Drives the Inter-Annual Variability in the Advective Cooling of the Oregon Inner Shelf? (644131)
Emily P Lemagie, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, United States, Anthony Kirincich, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Steven J Lentz, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Woods Hole, United States
CP41B-08
Observations of a Remarkably Consistent New Form of Coastal Upwelling on the New England Inner Shelf (640578)
Steven J Lentz, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
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