Exchange of plankton, pollutants, and particles across the nearshore region

M Moulton, SH Suanda, JC Garwood… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Exchange of material across the nearshore region, extending from the shoreline to a few
kilometers offshore, determines the concentrations of pathogens and nutrients near the …

Automated retrieval of internal wave phase speed and direction from pairs of SAR images with different look directions

S Furtney, R Romeiser, HC Graber - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is the premier instrument in satellite remote sensing for the
detection of oceanic internal waves due to its sensitivity to changes in small-scale ocean …

A juvenile journey: Using a highly resolved 3D mooring array to investigate the roles of wind and internal tide forcing in across‐shore larval transport

K McBride, J MacKinnon, PJS Franks… - Limnology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The across‐shore transport of meroplanktonic larvae is predominantly driven by coastal
physical processes, resulting in episodic recruitment of benthic species. Historically, due to …

[HTML][HTML] The inner-shelf dynamics experiment

N Kumar, JA Lerczak, T Xu… - Bulletin of the …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
The inner shelf, the transition zone between the surfzone and the midshelf, is a dynamically
complex region with the evolution of circulation and stratification driven by multiple physical …

Seasonal controls on nearshore dissolved oxygen variability and hypoxia in a coastal embayment

RK Walter, SA Huie, JCP Abraham, A Pasulka… - Estuarine, Coastal and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Declining dissolved oxygen (DO) is emerging as an increasingly important stressor in
nearshore ecosystems, and there is a growing need to better understand DO dynamics and …

Airborne observations of shoaling and breaking internal waves

T Vrećica, N Pizzo, L Lenain - Geophysical Research Letters, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Internal waves (IW) are crucial contributors to the transport of sediment, heat, and nutrients
in coastal areas. While IW have been extensively studied using point measurements, their …

Automated detection, classification, and tracking of internal wave signatures using X-band radar in the inner shelf

S Celona, ST Merrifield, T de Paolo… - … of Atmospheric and …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
A method based on machine learning and image processing techniques has been
developed to track the surface expression of internal waves in near–real time. X-band radar …

Lifecycle of a submesoscale front birthed from a nearshore internal bore

SR Haney, AJ Simpson… - Journal of Physical …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
The ocean is home to many different submesoscale phenomena, including internal waves,
fronts, and gravity currents. Each of these processes entails complex nonlinear dynamics …

Regional study of mode-2 internal solitary waves in the Pacific coast of Central America using marine seismic survey data

W Fan, H Song, Y Gong, S Yang… - Nonlinear Processes in …, 2021 - npg.copernicus.org
In this paper, a regional study of the mode-2 internal solitary waves (ISWs) in the Pacific
coast of Central America is carried out by using seismic reflection method. The observed …

Effects of stratification on shoaling internal tidal bores

DP Dauhajre, MJ Molemaker… - Journal of Physical …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Idealized simulations of a shoaling internal tide on a gently sloping, linear shelf provide a
tool to investigate systematically the effects of stratification strength, vertical structure, and …