CP14C:
The Dynamics of Buoyancy-Driven Flows in Estuaries, Continental Shelves, and Polar Seas IV Posters
Session ID#: 93324
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, 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: Sarah N Giddings, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States and Joseph T Jurisa, COAS, Corvallis, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison: Joseph T Jurisa, COAS, Corvallis, United States
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Ambient Water Circulation Near a River Discharge: Investigating the Formation of a Topographic β-Plume. (649563)
Alejandra Sanchez-Rios1, Shih-Nan Chen2, Jia-Xuan Chang1 and Shinichiro Kida3, (1)IONTU Institute of Oceanography National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, (2)Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, (3)Research Institute of Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Dynamics of Thermally-Driven Exchange Modified by Coriolis, Winds, and Currents. (657461)
Aryan Safaie, University of California, Irvine, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States, Dr. Kristen A Davis, Stanford University, Oceans, Stanford, United States and Geno R Pawlak, University of California San Diego, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, La Jolla, United States
Impact of compounding atmospheric events on shelf heat content in a river-influenced shelf system: Potential implications for Hurricane Michael (651721)
Brian Dzwonkowski1,2, Jeff Coogan2,3, Grant Lockridge2 and Kyeong Park4, (1)University of South Alabama, Marine Science, Mobile, AL, United States, (2)Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, United States, (3)University of South Alabama, Marine Science, Mobile, United States, (4)Texas A&M University at Galveston, Department of Marine and Coastal Environmental Science, Galveston, United States
Observations from a 24-hour survey examining exchange between a deep shipping channel and shallow estuary in a microtidal system, Mobile Bay, AL. (654849)
Jeff Coogan, Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, United States, Brian Dzwonkowski, University of South Alabama / Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, United States and John C Lehrter, University of South Alabama / Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, AL, United States; Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, AL, United States
Interaction between an inclined gravity current and a pycnocline in a two-layer stratification (643546)
Yukinobu Tanimoto1, Nicholas T Ouellette2 and Jeffrey R Koseff1, (1)Stanford University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford, California, United States
Monitoring the Congo River Plume with the Oceanic currents derived from the AIS messages (652375)
Clement Le Goff, E-Odyn, Brest, France, Isabelle Dadou, LEGOS, Toulouse Cedex 9, France, Yves Morel, Laboratoire d’Etudes Géophysiques et d’Océanographie Spatiale, LEGOS – UMR 5566 CNES-CNRS-IRD-UPS, Toulouse, France and Habib Dieng, LEGOS, Toulouse, France
Predictability of ROMS-Ocean State Ocean Model using Information Theory (649723)
Aakash Sane1, Baylor Fox-Kemper2, David S Ullman3, Lewis M Rothstein4 and Christopher R Kincaid3, (1)Brown University, Providence, United States, (2)Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, (3)University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, United States, (4)University of Rhode Island- Narragansett Bay, Narragansett, RI, United States
Using seasonality to trace water masses in a coastal ocean (646287)
Samuel Stevens1,2 and Rich Pawlowicz1, (1)University of British Columbia, Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (2)Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, St.George's, Bermuda
Implications of Shifting Stratification Dynamics on Phytoplankton Blooms in San Francisco Bay Under Future Climate Scenarios (648145)
Emma Shie Nuss, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, Christopher D Holleman, University of California Davis, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Davis, CA, United States, Jian Zhou, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States and David B Senn, San Francisco Estuary Institute, Richmond, CA, United States
Modeling Along Front Instabilities of a River Plume Modulated by a Cross Tidal Flow (651455)
Fengyan Shi1, Merrick C Haller2, Tian-Jian Hsu1, Joseph T Jurisa3, James T Kirby Jr4 and W Rockwell Geyer5, (1)University of Delaware, Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, Newark, United States, (2)Oregon State University, Civil and Construction Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)COAS, Corvallis, United States, (4)University of Delaware, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Newark, DE, United States, (5)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Spatial and Temporal Variability in Vertical Mixing in the Core of a Tidally Energetic River Plume (650954)
Kimberly Huguenard1, Preston Spicer1, Kelly L Cole2, Daniel G MacDonald3, Michael M Whitney4, Nikiforos Delatolas5 and James Herbert Leidhold6, (1)University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States, (2)University of Maine, Civil Engineering, Orono, ME, United States, (3)U Mass/Dartmouth-Est&Ocean Sci, Fairhaven, MA, United States, (4)University of Connecticut, Marine Sciences, Groton, United States, (5)University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA, United States, (6)UMASS Dartmouth, Civil and Environmental Engineering, N. Dartmouth, MA, United States
Evolution of Frontal Structure in a River Plume Subject to Strong Alongshore Tidal Currents (643212)
Daniel G MacDonald1, Ágata Piffer Braga, PhD2, Nikiforos Delatolas3, James Herbert Leidhold4, Louis Goodman5, Michael M Whitney6, Kelly L Cole7, Kimberly Huguenard8 and Preston Spicer8, (1)University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Civil and Environmental Engineering, New Bedford, MA, United States, (2)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (3)University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA, United States, (4)UMASS Dartmouth, Civil and Environmental Engineering, N. Dartmouth, MA, United States, (5)University of Massachusetts Da, New Bedford, MA, United States, (6)University of Connecticut, Marine Sciences, Groton, United States, (7)University of Maine, Civil Engineering, Orono, ME, United States, (8)University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States
Gull’s-eye View: Evolution of the Surface Expression of a River Plume Front (652507)
James Herbert Leidhold1, Daniel G MacDonald2, Nikiforos Delatolas3, Ágata Piffer Braga, PhD4, Louis Goodman5, Michael M Whitney6, Kimberly Huguenard7, Kelly L Cole8 and Preston Spicer7, (1)UMASS Dartmouth, Civil and Environmental Engineering, N. Dartmouth, MA, United States, (2)U Mass/Dartmouth-Est&Ocean Sci, Fairhaven, MA, United States, (3)Earth Resources Technology Inc., Silver Spring, MD, United States, (4)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (5)University of Massachusetts Da, New Bedford, MA, United States, (6)University of Connecticut, Marine Sciences, Groton, United States, (7)University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States, (8)University of Maine, School of Marine Sciences, Walpole, ME, United States
