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Transport of Material near the Ocean Surface
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Transport of Material near the Ocean Surface

A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Ocean Engineering".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (5 February 2022) | Viewed by 7041

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Guillaume Novelli

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Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
Interests: ocean currents and circulation; surface drifters; observational oceanography; ocean modeling; coastal processes; computational fluid dynamics; fluid dynamics; air–sea interaction; instrument development

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Transport at the sea surface results from complex interactions between atmospheric and oceanic processes. Accurate predictions of surface trajectories are notoriously difficult to make, due to the large number of degrees of freedom and a relative lack of observations. A better understanding of the physical processes involved across multiple temporal and spatial scales could lead to faster and safer search-and-rescue operations, and to designing more efficient strategies to mitigating threatening pollution events such as marine oil spills, harmful algal blooms, plastic and marine debris accumulation.

This Special Issue aims at presenting recent advances in ocean surface transport research. We invite contributions to the field coming from numerical models, laboratory experiments, and field observations. We also welcome original papers with a focus on engineering, instrument development, or big data.

Dr. Guillaume Novelli
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Surface currents
  • Surface waves
  • Fronts
  • Transport
  • Convergence
  • Search-and-rescue
  • Oil spill
  • Marine debris
  • Drone
  • Drifter

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A Study of the Potential Impact of Dredging the Corpus Christi Ship Channel on Passive Particle Transport
by Eirik Valseth, Mark D. Loveland, Clint Dawson and Edward J. Buskey
J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2021, 9(9), 935; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/jmse9090935 - 28 Aug 2021
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We present a study of the potential impact of deepening the Corpus Christi Ship Channel through Aransas Pass; in particular, we study the effect on the transport of red drum fish larvae due to the change in channel depth. The study was conducted [...] Read more.
We present a study of the potential impact of deepening the Corpus Christi Ship Channel through Aransas Pass; in particular, we study the effect on the transport of red drum fish larvae due to the change in channel depth. The study was conducted by high resolution simulation of the circulation of the seawater entering and exiting the pass for the current and proposed Ship Channel depths. The computer model incorporates tides and meteorological forcing and includes the entire Gulf of Mexico and the North American Atlantic coast. The corresponding transport of larvae modeled as passive particles due to the sea water circulation is established by releasing particles in the nearshore region outside Aransas Pass and subsequently tracking their trajectories. We compare the difference in the number of larvae that successfully reach appropriate nursery grounds inside Aransas Pass for four distinctive initial larvae positions in the nearshore region. Our results indicate that the change in channel depth does not significantly alter the number of red drum larvae that reach suitable nursery grounds, overall, across all considered scenarios, we see a net increase of 0.5%. Full article
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Asymmetric Frontal Response across the Gulf of Mexico Front in Winter 2016
by Mohammad Barzegar, Darek Bogucki, Brian K. Haus, Tamay Ozgokmen and Mingming Shao
J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2021, 9(4), 402; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/jmse9040402 - 09 Apr 2021
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The interaction of cold-vertically stratified (CVS) Mississippi River water with warm-horizontally stratified (WHS) Gulf of Mexico water resulted in a front that affected the oceanic surface layer. Our cross-frontal observations demonstrated two vertical layers. The cross-frontal deep layer (9–30 m) averaged a temperature [...] Read more.
The interaction of cold-vertically stratified (CVS) Mississippi River water with warm-horizontally stratified (WHS) Gulf of Mexico water resulted in a front that affected the oceanic surface layer. Our cross-frontal observations demonstrated two vertical layers. The cross-frontal deep layer (9–30 m) averaged a temperature dissipation rate (TD) varied by a factor of 1000 and was larger on the CVS side. The near-surface layer (0–9 m) averaged TD did not vary significantly across the front. The deep layer frontal asymmetry coincided with depths where the Thorpe scale was large. The situation was similar for the layer averaged turbulent kinetic energy dissipation rate (TKED). Within both layers, the averaged-TKED values were 10–30 times larger on the CVS side. The surface turbulent heat flux was up to 4 times larger on the WHS side. The observed asymmetric response of the turbulence across the front could play a significant role in the ocean-atmosphere climate system. Full article
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The Response of the Water Surface Layer to Internal Turbulence and Surface Forcing
by Mohammad Barzegar, Darek Bogucki, Brian K. Haus and Mingming Shao
J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2021, 9(2), 217; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/jmse9020217 - 19 Feb 2021
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We have carried out an experimental study of the turbulence kinetic energy dissipation rate (ϵ), temperature dissipation rate (χ), and turbulent heat flux (THF) within the water surface layer in the presence of non-breaking wave, surface convection, and horizontal [...] Read more.
We have carried out an experimental study of the turbulence kinetic energy dissipation rate (ϵ), temperature dissipation rate (χ), and turbulent heat flux (THF) within the water surface layer in the presence of non-breaking wave, surface convection, and horizontal heat and eddy fluxes that play a prominent role in the front. We noted that the non-breaking wave dominates ϵ values within the surface layer. While analyzing the vertical ϵ variability, the presence of a wave-affected layer from the water surface to a depth of z≈1.25λw is observed, where λw is the wavelength. ϵ associated with non-breaking waves ranged to 4.9×10−6–7×10−6 m2/s3 for the wavelength range of 0.038 m < λw < 0.098 m categorized as the gravity and gravity-capillary wave regimes. ϵ values increase for longer λw and non-breaking wave ϵ values represent their significant contribution to the ocean energy budget and dynamic of surface layer considering that the non-breaking wave covers the large fraction of ocean surface. We also found that the surface mean square slope (MSS) and wave generated ϵ have the same order of magnitude, i.e., MSS ∼ϵ. Besides, we have documented that the small-scale temperature fluctuation change (i.e., χ) is consistent with the large-scale temperature gradient change (i.e., d<T>/dz). The value of the THF is approximately constant within the surface layer. It represents that the measured THF near the water surface can be considered a surface water THF, challenging to measure directly. Full article
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