[Faculty] Fwd: [CSRC-SDSU COLLOQUIUM]: Nonlinear internal waves in the nearshore coastal environment

[Jose Castillo]

*DATE*:  Friday, March 11th, 2016

*TITLE*:   Nonlinear internal waves in the nearshore coastal environment

*TIME*:  3:30 PM

*LOCATION*:  GMCS 214

*SPEAKER*:  Dr. Ryan Walter

*ABSTRACT*: The nearshore coastal environment is generally taken to be one
of the most productive and ecologically important parts of the ocean. The
nearshore is also physically complex, due in large part to the widespread
and often irregular occurrence of nonlinear internal waves that frequently
appear more bore-like than wave-like. Indeed, this region of the ocean can
be thought of as the “swash zone” for larger-scale internal wave fields on
the continental shelf. These nearshore internal waves and bores have
considerable implications for the cross-shelf exchange and transport of
nutrients, sediments, contaminants, larvae, and other scalars; turbulent
dissipation and diapycnal mixing; and hypoxia development. Despite the
ramifications and a growing body of literature on the subject, many
questions still remain with respect to the evolution, fate, and impact of
internal waves and bores in the nearshore coastal environment. This talk
addresses some of these questions using a combination of high-resolution
field measurements and numerical modeling efforts. Challenges and issues
related to the numerical modeling of internal waves and bores in the
shallow coastal environment will be discussed.

*HOST*:  Dr. Jose Castillo.

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