Estimation of far-field horizontal and vertical turbulent diffusion coefficients from the concentration field of a wastewater plume near the Akashi Strait

Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-22

  Bricker, Jeremy D ^a   Nakayama, Akihiko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Estuary; Osaka Bay; Tides; Wastewater plume

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); ESTUARIES; OPEN CHANNEL FLOW; THERMAL PLUMES; TIDES; TURBULENT FLOW; WASTEWATER; WATER POLLUTION;

DISCHARGE; ESTIMATION METHOD; PLUME; SALINITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TIDAL CYCLE; TURBULENT DIFFUSION; WASTEWATER; WATER MASS;

AKASHI STRAIT; ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; HYOGO; JAPAN; KINKI; OSAKA BAY;

EID: 33846472639     PISSN: 15677419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10652-006-9013-4     Document Type: Article

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