Dispersion of disposed dredged slurry in the meso-tidal Changjiang (Yangtze River) Estuary

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 663-672

  Wu, Jiaxue ^a   Liu, James T ^b,c   Shen, Huanting ^c   Zhang, Shuying ^d  

^a Tongji University   (China)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Changjiang (Yangtze) Estuary; lutocline; mixing; open water disposal; sediment plume

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; DISPERSAL; DREDGING; ESTUARINE POLLUTION; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; FIELD SURVEY; GRAIN SIZE; MIXING; PLUME; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SLURRY; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TIDAL CURRENT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; YANGTZE ESTUARY;

EID: 33751399845     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2006.07.013     Document Type: Article

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