PS001
Boundary Currents and Shelf-Deep Ocean Exchange
Boundary Currents and Shelf-Deep Ocean Exchange
Session ID#: 85042
Session Description:
The environmental health and societal uses of the coastal ocean are impacted not only by human activities on land but also by coastal to open-ocean exchange at the edge of the continental shelf – processes strongly influenced by energetic shelf-edge boundary currents. Boundary currents are themselves significant in global budgets of heat, freshwater and biogeochemical constituents, and are regions of strong air-sea interaction and frontal instabilities. Processes that exchange waters across the edge of the continental shelf are key controllers of coastal ocean water properties, including heat, freshwater, nutrients, and pollutants, thereby playing significant roles in coastal ecosystem dynamics. This session will explore processes that drive exchange across the continental shelf and slope, particularly where boundary currents are significant drivers of exchange, and potential topics include seasonal cycles and inter-annual variability, extreme events, submesoscale processes, and linkages to ecosystems. Observational, numerical, and theoretical efforts are welcome, with results from integrated model-observation systems particularly encouraged.
Index Terms:
4217 Coastal processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4219 Continental shelf and slope processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4516 Eastern boundary currents [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4576 Western boundary currents [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Primary Chair: Robert E Todd, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Co-chairs: Amandine Schaeffer, University of New South Wales, Coastal and Regional Oceanography Lab, School of Maths and Statistics, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Catherine Richardson Edwards, Skidaway Institute of Oceanogr, Savannah, GA, United States and Matthew R Archer, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
Primary Liaison: Robert E Todd, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States
See more of: Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Smaller
