Calculations of horizontal mixing rates using 222Rn and the controls on hypoxia in western Long Island Sound, 1991

Estuaries

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 328-345

  Torgersen, Thomas ^a   Deangelo, Edward ^a,b   O'Donnell, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL; ESTUARINE DYNAMICS; ESTUARY DYNAMICS; HORIZONTAL; HORIZONTAL MIXING RATES; HYPOXIA; MIXING; OXYGEN; RADON-222;

USA, LONG ISLAND SOUND;

EID: 0030620083     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1352348     Document Type: Article

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