Session 2 |
| | Ocean Processes |
| | Organizer: Julie Pullen, NRL, Monterey, CA
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| 1:00 PM | 2.1 | Wind and storm impacts on circulation, sediment transport and salinity changes: Atchafalaya-Vermilion Bay, Louisiana, USA
Nan D. Walker, Coastal Studies Institute, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA; and S. Dartez, X. P. Zhang, G. W. Stone, A. Babin, A. S. Haag, S. Myint, and J. V. Letter |
| 1:15 PM | 2.2 | The Alaska Coastal Current: Forcing by Local Winds and Runoff
Nicholas A. Bond, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and P. J. Stabeno |
| 1:30 PM | 2.3 | Altimetric and in-situ observations of upper-ocean structure and heat content off the U.S. West Coast during the 1998 El Nino event 
James M. Wilczak, NOAA/ERL/ETL, Boulder, CO; and R. R. Leben and D. S. McCollum |
| 1:45 PM | 2.4 | Oceanic Motion Vectors: derivation from time-lapse fields of ocean color
R. L. Bernstein, SeaSpace Corporation, San Diego, CA; and K. S. Prasad |
| 2:00 PM | 2.5 | West Florida shelf air-sea fluxes and SST variability
Robert H. Weisberg, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL; and J. I. Virmani and R. He |
| 2:15 PM | 2.6 | Reconstruction of Shelf Circulation in Northern Gulf of Mexico from Drifter Buoy Data
Peter C. Chu, NPS, Monterey, CA; and L. M. Ivanov, T. P. Korchova, T. M. Margolina, and O. V. Melnichenko |
| 2:30 PM | 2.7 | Determination of Coastal Current System Between Mindanao and New Guinea
Peter C. Chu, NPS, Monterey, CA; and C. W. Fan and R. Li |
| 2:45 PM | | Coffee Break
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