Fourth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes

Session 2: Ocean Processes

Thursday, 8 November 2001: 1:00 PM-3:15 PM
Organizer:  Julie Pullen, NRL
Papers:
  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
  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