HR: 0800h
AN: OS41D-0506    [Abstracts]
TI: Occurrence of Langmuir Supercells at LEO-15
AU: * Wells, J R
EM: jwells@ccpo.odu.edu
AF: Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529 United States
AU: Gargett, A E
EM: gargett@ccpo.odu.edu
AF: Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529 United States
AB: Extended deployment of a "turbulence" VADCP has revealed that the major sediment resuspension events at the LEO-15 coastal observatory are associated with the occurrence of Langmuir supercells (LSC), Langmuir circulations that grow to fill the entire water column. We will describe the three-dimensional flow field associated with LSC and explore conditions leading to these events.
DE: 4219 Continental shelf processes
DE: 4504 Air/sea interactions (0312)
DE: 4558 Sediment transport
DE: 4568 Turbulence, diffusion, and mixing processes
DE: 4572 Upper ocean processes
SC: Ocean Sciences [OS]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting