A Model Study of Turbidity Maxima in the York River Estuary, Virginia

Estuaries

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1269-1280

  Lin, Jing ^a   Kuo, Albert Y ^b  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; RIVER DISCHARGE; SALINITY; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TURBIDITY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA; YORK RIVER;

EID: 0346966843     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02803629     Document Type: Article

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