068 Oceanic Overflows and Dense Gravity Currents: Observations, Modeling and Parameterization

Session organizer(s)

Sonya Legg
Princeton University
Sonya.Legg@noaa.gov

Arnold Gordon
Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
agordon@ldeo.columbia.edu

Tamay Ozgokmen
University of Miami
tozgokmen@rsmas.miami.edu

Date: 03-03-2008

Location: W109 B

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Oral Presentations

08:00
Thurnherr, A M; OVERFLOW OBSERVATIONS ON THE MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE (Abstract ID:584)

08:15
Riemenschneider, U; Price, J; Pratt, L; Legg, S; Helfrich, K; THE FAROE BANK CHANNEL OVERFLOW: COMPARISON BETWEEN SIMULATIONS, SIMPLIFIED OVERFLOW REPRESENTATIONS, AND HYDRAULIC JUMP THEORY. (Abstract ID:962)

08:30
Jackson, L C; Hallberg, R W; TIDAL EFFECTS ON THE MEDITERRANEAN OVERFLOW. (Abstract ID:646)

08:45
Biton, E; Gildor, H; Silverman, J; SHELF CONVECTION IN THE NORTHERN GULF OF AQABA, NORTHERN RED SEA (Abstract ID:891)

09:00
Sherwin, T J; Griffiths, C R; EKMAN DRIVEN VELOCITY PROFILES AND MIXING IN A FAST FLOWING DEEP WATER CASCADE IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC (Abstract ID:547)

09:15
Haine, T; HIGH-FREQUENCY FLUCTUATIONS IN DENMARK STRAIT OVERFLOW TRANSPORT (Abstract ID:791)

09:30
Chang, Y S; Özgökmen, T; Garraffo, Z D; Peters, H; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF NORTH ATLANTIC OVERFLOWS IN THREE DIFFERENT HORIZONTAL GRID RESOLUTIONS (Abstract ID:1034)

09:45
Pickart, R S; Pratt, L J; Whitledge, T E; FLOW OF DENSE PACIFIC WATER INTO THE WESTERN ARCTIC OCEAN THROUGH HERALD CANYON (Abstract ID:86)

10:00
Large, W G; Danabasoglu, G; Briegleb, B P; NORDIC SEA OVERFLOWS AND MODELED CLIMATE (Abstract ID:1450)

10:15
klinck, J M; Husrevoglu, J S; Dinniman, M S; CONTINENTAL SHELF WATER MASS DISTRIBUTION, TRANSFORMATIONS AND OFF-SHELF TRANSPORT IN A SEA ICE-OCEAN MODEL OF THE ROSS SEA, ANTARCTICA (Abstract ID:1540)

16:00
Ozgokmen, T M; Fischer, P F; ON THE ROLE OF BOTTOM ROUGHNESS IN OVERFLOWS (Abstract ID:89)

16:15
Chen, J; Odier, P; Rivera, M; Ecke, R; TURBULENT MIXING IN STABLY-STRATIFIED GRAVITY CURRENTS: LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS AND OCEANIC OVERFLOW IMPLICATIONS (Abstract ID:2532)

16:30
Cenedese, C; Adduce, C; MIXING INDUCED IN OCEANIC OVERFLOWS AND DENSE GRAVITY CURRENTS: A NEW ENTRAINMENT PARAMETERIZATION. (Abstract ID:660)

16:45
Wahlin, A K; Darelius, E; Cenedese, C; Lane-Serff, G F; LABORATORY OBSERVATIONS OF ENHANCED PLUME ENTRAINMENT IN THE PRESENCE OF SUBMARINE CANYONS AND RIDGES (Abstract ID:308)

17:00
Pratt, L J; Spall, M A; CIRCULATION AND EXCHANGE IN CHOKED MARGINAL SEAS (Abstract ID:183)

17:15
Wells, M G; Nadarajah, P; THE INTRUSION DEPTH OF A DENSITY CURRENT IN A STRATIFIED WATER BODY (Abstract ID:649)

Poster Presentations

Tessler, Z D; Gordon, A L; OBSERVATIONS ON THE TRANSPORT AND STRUCTURE OF THE PANAY STRAIT OVERFLOW (Abstract ID:600)

Matt, S; Iskandarani, M; Leaman, K D; MIXING AND ENTRAINMENT IN A 2D GRAVITY CURRENT FROM A HIGH-ORDER NON-HYDROSTATIC SPECTRAL ELEMENT MODEL AND THE IMPACT OF TEMPORAL VARIABILITY IN FORCING (Abstract ID:1076)

Guan, X; Ou, H W; Chen, D; TIDAL EFFECT ON THE DENSE WATER DISCHARGE: A MODELLING STUDY (Abstract ID:1413)

Muench, R D; WÃ¥hlin, A; Ozgokmen, T; Hallberg, R; Gordon, A; Padman, L; DENSE OUTFLOWS OVER A STEEP, CORRUGATED SEABED: ROSS SEA, ANTARCTICA (Abstract ID:74)

Swaters, G E; STABILITY CHARACTERISTICS OF ABYSSAL OVERFLOWS (Abstract ID:79)

Xu, X; Chassignet, E P; Townsend, T L; THE MEDITERRANEAN OUTFLOW IN A NORTH ATLANTIC SIMULATION (Abstract ID:334)

Ilıcak, M; Özgökmen, T M; Peters, H; Baumert, H Z; Iskandarini, M; PERFORMANCE OF THE 2^ND ORDER TURBULENCE CLOSURES IN THE RED SEA OVERFLOW (Abstract ID:408)

Bozec, A; Chassignet, E P; Garraffo, Z; Halliwell, G; Lozier, S; EVALUATION OF THE MEDITERRANEAN OUTLOW WATER VARIABILITY IN NORTH ATLANTIC HYCOM SIMULATIONS (Abstract ID:559)

Husrevoglu, Y S; Klinck, J M; Dinniman, M S; Withdrawn (Abstract ID:1527)

Das, H S; Niedoroda, A; ROLE OF GRAVITY CURRENTS ON SEAFLOOR MORPHOLOGY (Abstract ID:2791)

Matsumura, Y; Hasumi, H; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS ON DENSE GRAVITY CURRENTS (Abstract ID:3186)

Aiki, H; Takahashi, K; Yamagata, T; THE RED SEA OUTFLOW REGULATED BY THE INDIAN MONSOON (Abstract ID:3336)

Girton, J B; Yousoufian, K S; DENMARK STRAIT OVERFLOW EDDIES AS A PROXY FOR THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION VARIABILITY (Abstract ID:3370)