Summary
Since much of the coastal population and economic activity is concentrated around bays and inlets, it is important to understand their circulation. Semi-enclosed basins are particularly interesting because their exchange with the open ocean involves the interplay of local wind forcing and conditions over the continental shelf, which may be influenced by larger scale winds elsewhere. This project will explore a dynamical framework to combine such effects and generalize findings to semi-enclosed basins globally. Expected findings will help efforts to predict impacts on coastal environments from
