Suspended particulate layers and internal waves over the southern Monterey Bay continental shelf: an important control on shelf mud belts?

OM Cheriton, EE McPhee‐Shaw… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Physical and optical measurements taken over the mud belt on the southern continental
shelf of Monterey Bay, California documented the frequent occurrence of suspended …

Variability of the internal tide on the southern Monterey Bay continental shelf and associated bottom boundary layer sediment transport

KJ Rosenberger, CD Storlazzi, OM Cheriton - Continental Shelf Research, 2016 - Elsevier
A 6-month deployment of instrumentation from April to October 2012 in 90 m water depth
near the outer edge of the mid-shelf mud belt in southern Monterey Bay, California, reveals …

Observations of internal wave packets propagating along‐shelf in northern Monterey Bay

CB Woodson, JA Barth, OM Cheriton… - Geophysical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Internal waves of depression were observed propagating along‐shelf and into northern
Monterey Bay, California (CA) on the inner shelf. These waves had amplitudes …

Wave‐mud interactions over the muddy Atchafalaya subaqueous clinoform, Louisiana, United States: Wave‐supported sediment transport

S Jaramillo, A Sheremet, MA Allison… - Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Near‐bottom fluid‐mud layers were observed during two experiments conducted on the
muddy Atchafalaya inner shelf (subaqueous clinoform), Louisiana, United States. On the …

Interactions between waves, sediment, and turbulence on a shallow estuarine mudflat

LJ MacVean, JR Lacy - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Measurements were collected on a shallow estuarine mudflat in northern San Francisco Bay
to examine the physical processes controlling waves, turbulence, sediment resuspension …

Sediment transport and development of banner banks and sandwaves in an extreme tidal system: Upper Bay of Fundy, Canada

MZ Li, J Shaw, BJ Todd, VE Kostylev, Y Wu - Continental Shelf Research, 2014 - Elsevier
Multibeam sonar mapping and geophysical and geological groundtruth surveys were
coupled with tidal current and sediment transport model calculations to investigate the …

Internal waves, solitary-like waves, and mixing on the Monterey Bay shelf

GS Carter, MC Gregg, RC Lien - Continental Shelf Research, 2005 - Elsevier
Microstructure measurements taken on the Monterey Bay continental shelf, within 4km of the
shelf break, reveal a complex mixing environment. Depth-and time-averaged dissipation …

The role of wave-induced density-driven fluid mud flows for cross-shelf transport on the Eel River continental shelf

P Traykovski, WR Geyer, JD Irish, JF Lynch - Continental Shelf Research, 2000 - Elsevier
Observations of cross-shelf sediment transport conducted in the winter of 1997–1998 as part
of the STRATAFORM program reveal that gravitationally forced density flows of fluid mud …

Observations of nearshore wave dissipation over muddy sea beds

A Sheremet, GW Stone - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Wave propagation on the Louisiana inner shelf is studied using concurrent measurements at
two shallow water ocean observatory sites, in sedimentary environments dominated by mud …

Across-shore variability in plankton layering and abundance associated with physical forcing in Monterey Bay, California

JC Sevadjian, MA McManus, J Ryan, AT Greer… - Continental shelf …, 2014 - Elsevier
The purpose of this study was to further our understanding of the role of the coastal physical
oceanographic environment as a dynamic and constantly evolving habitat for plankton. Over …