CD23A:
Nearshore Processes IV


Session ID#: 37696

Session Description:
The nearshore region is the transition zone from land to the open ocean. This region spans drastically different dynamical regimes with varying roles of waves, wind, tides, buoyancy, and morphology. The vulnerability of the coast to sea level rise, extreme storms, and anthropogenic influences is a major societal concern. The nearshore region is further complicated by the interaction and feedback between physical processes and both ecological and biological processes. Abstracts focusing on physical processes occurring in the nearshore region from the subaerial beach to the shelf break are invited. Interesting topics include: 1) surface and internal wave dynamics, 2) wind-, wave-, and tide-driven circulation, 3) Extreme events in nearshore and river integrated systems, 4) mixing and turbulence, 5) cross-shelf exchange, 6) sediment transport and morphologic evolution, 7) process-based ecological or biological nearshore interactions. We welcome abstracts describing field observations (both remotely sensed and in-situ), numerical and laboratory modeling, theoretical analysis, and model-data assimilation. The nearshore processes session is an established and well-attended session in which student participation is strongly encouraged.
Primary Chair:  Mara Morgenstern Orescanin, Naval Postgraduate School, Oceanography, Monterey, CA, United States
Co-chairs:  Talea Mayo, University of Central Florida, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering, Orlando, FL, United States and Saeed Moghimi, NOAA National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, United States
Moderators:  Saeed Moghimi, NOAA National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, United States, Cigdem Akan, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL, United States and Sutara H Suanda, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Cigdem Akan, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL, United States
Index Terms:

3020 Littoral processes [MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS]
4217 Coastal processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4235 Estuarine processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4546 Nearshore processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Cross-Topics:
  • ES - Ecology and Social Interactions
  • E - Estuarine Processes
  • MG - Marine Geology and Sedimentology

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Infragravity wave dynamics over the shelf (315555)
Pieter Smit1, Tim T Janssen1 and Tom Herbers2, (1)Spoondrift, Half Moon Bay, CA, United States, (2)Naval Postgraduate School, CA, United States
Existence and forcing of resonant infragravity oscillations on harbor to island scales (316694)
Assaf Azouri, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States and Douglas S Luther, Univ Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
Poleward wave propagation along the southwest African shelf as revealed by moored observations (317338)
Tim Junker1, Volker Mohrholz2, Martin Schmidt3, Lydia Siegfried1 and Anja van der Plas4, (1)Leibniz-Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde, Physical Oceanography and Instrumentation, Rostock-Warnemünde, Germany, (2)Leibniz-Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde, Rostock-Warnemünde, Germany, (3)Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde, Physical Oceanography and Instrumentation, Rostock, Germany, (4)Ministry of Fisheries & Marine Resources, Subdivision Environment, Swakopmund, Namibia
Examination of local and remote wind effects on circulations in coastal bays/estuaries under strong winds (326476)
Chunyan Li, Louisiana State University, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, College of the Coast and Environment, Baton Rouge, United States, Wei Huang, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States and Changsheng Chen, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, School for Marine Science and Technology, New Bedford, United States
Numerical experiment of weather impact on freshwater plume from Bonnet Carré Spillway diversion (326173)
Wei Huang, Louisiana State University, Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, Chunyan Li, Louisiana State University, Coastal Studies Institute, Baton Rouge, United States; Louisiana State University, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, College of the Coast and Environment, Baton Rouge, United States and Changsheng Chen, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, School for Marine Science and Technology, New Bedford, United States
Estimating bed shear stress distribution from numerically modeled tides and wind waves on estuarine mudflats (322389)
Dr. Salme Cook, PhD, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States and Thomas Charles Lippmann, Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping Joint Hydrographic Center, Durham, NH, United States
THE GENERATION OF INTERNAL WAVES BY VARIABLE WIND STRESS AND TIDAL FLOW INTERACTIONS IN THE NEARSHORE (307041)
Sorush Omidvar1, Matheus Fagundes2 and Clifton Brock Woodson1, (1)University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States, (2)University of Georgia, Engineering, Athens, GA, United States
Dense Gravity Currents with Breaking Internal Waves (307550)
Yukinobu Tanimoto1, Charlie Alan Renshaw Hogg2, Nicholas T Ouellette2 and Jeffrey R Koseff1, (1)Stanford University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States

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