This is an intensive introduction to the physical oceanography of estuarine and coastal regions. The first half of the course is devoted to lectures, from the instructors and from several guest faculty, on fluid mechanics and processes intrinsic to these scales. We review shallow water flows, unstratified turbulence, tides and hydraulics, and stratified mixing driven by winds and tides. We cover the coupled systems of estuarine dynamics, river plumes, and coastal circulation. The second half of the course focuses on student-designed experiments, either in the field or numerical. Students work in teams to develop their experiments, and each is expected to develop an individual project within that. Students write a short paper and give a presentation to document their work. Students are expected to have completed at least the first year of a graduate program in physical oceanography. Please contact Parker MacCready pmacc@uw.edu, or Rocky Geyer rgeyer@whoi.edu for more information. Topics Covered in lectures - Fluids: Notation, Basic Equations, Hydrostatic, Reynolds Averaging
- Homogeneous turbulence and the bottom boundary layer
- Shallow Water Equations with Friction
- Origin of Tides, Tides in a Channel with Friction, Energetics of Tides
- Stratified Turbulence & Shear Flow
- Estuaries: Introduction and the Knudsen Relation
- Tidally-Averaged Estuarine Dynamics: Equations & Solutions
- Estuary Subtidal Time-Dependence
- Estuary Complexities: Tidal Residual, SIPS, Rix, Lateral Processes
- Rough Topography & Form Drag
- Highly Stratified Estuaries
- Buoyant Coastal Currents
- The Inner Shelf
- River Plumes
- Wind-driven Coastal Upwelling
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