CP44G:
The Inner Shelf: Impacts of Interconnected Processes IV Posters

Session ID#: 93328

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, 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 Emily P Lemagie, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Emily P Lemagie, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
CP44G-1438
Airborne Remote Sensing of Surface and Internal Wave Processes on the Inner Shelf (643921)
Luc Lenain, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, Nick Statom, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States and Wallace Kendall Melville, Univ California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
 
CP44G-1439
Altimeter Observations of Inner Shelf Water Level Changes in Monsoon-dominated Regions (639231)
Richard L Crout, Naval Research Laboratory, Ocean Sciences Division, Stennis Space Center, United States and Ana E Rice, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States
 
CP44G-1440
Are Alabama Upwellings Broken? A Comparison of Burger Number and Velocity Structure (644827)
Ciara Larence, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States and Brian Dzwonkowski, University of South Alabama, Stokes School of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Mobile, United States
 
CP44G-1441
Characteristics and Generation Mechanisms of Submesoscale Fronts over the Inner to Mid-shelf (655129)
Xiaodong Wu1, Falk Feddersen2 and Sarah N Giddings1, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States
 
CP44G-1442
Comparing a High-Resolution Coupled Wave-Current Ocean Model and Biologging Derived Oceanographic Data (644130)
Dorukhan Ardag, United States, James A Lerczak, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, Greg Wilson, Oregon State University, CEOAS, Corvallis, United States, TUba H Ozkan-Haller, Oregon State University, Corvallis, United States, Adam Gabriel Peck-Richardson, Oregon State University, Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences, Corvallis, United States, Donald Lyons, Oregon State University, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Corvallis, OR, United States and Rachael Orben, Oregon State University, Hatfield Marine Science Center, Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences, Newport, United States
 
CP44G-1444
Modeling Coastal Upwelling on the Inner Shelf Near Pt. Sal, California (651970)
Kevin A Haas1, Seongho Ahn1, Emanuele Di Lorenzo2, Nirnimesh Kumar3, Sutara Suanda4, Christopher A Edwards5 and Arthur J Miller6, (1)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Atlanta, GA, United States, (2)Georgia Inst Tech, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, United States, (3)University of Washington, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States, (4)University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, (5)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (6)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
 
CP44G-1445
Observations of acoustic intensity fluctuations observed during the Inner Shelf DRI experiment (638254)
Kaustubha Raghukumar, Integral Consulting Inc., Santa Cruz, United States and Frank Spada, Integral Consulting Inc., Santa Cruz, CA, United States
 
CP44G-1446
Observations of boundary layer dynamics beneath nonlinear internal waves of depression (649727)
Andrew Zulberti, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia, Nicole L Jones, University of Western Australia, Oceans Graduate School and Oceans Institute, Crawley, WA, Australia and Gregory N Ivey, University Western Australia, Oceans Graduate School and Oceans Institute, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia
 
CP44G-1447
Remote Sensing and Modeling of Warm and Cool Plumes Connecting the Surf Zone and Inner Shelf (648765)
Melissa Moulton, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, United States, C Chris Chris Chickadel, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States and Jim Thomson, University of Washington, Seattle, United States
 
CP44G-1448
Three-dimensional inner-shelf circulation downstream of Otago peninsula, New Zealand (642616)
Sutara Suanda, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
 
CP44G-1449
Wave impact on surface Lagrangian movement under high wind events: an observation and process model study (651154)
Yan Jia, University of Connecticut, Connecticut Institute for Resilience & Climate Adaptation (CIRCA), Groton, CT, United States, James O'Donnell, University of Connecticut, Department of Marine Sciences, Groton, CT, United States, Yaprak Onat, University of Connecticut, Connecticut Institute for Resilience & Climate Adaptation (CIRCA), Groton, United States and Michael M Whitney, University of Connecticut, Marine Sciences, Groton, CT, United States
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