Vertical circulation in shallow tidal inlets and back-barrier basins

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 798-831

  Stanev, Emil V ^a,c   Flemming, Burghard W ^b   Bartholomä, Alex ^b   Staneva, Joanna V ^a   Wolff, Jörg Olaf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b SENCKENBERG DEUTSCHES ENTOMOLOGISCHES INSTITUT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ADCP measurements; EOF analysis; Numerical modelling; Tidal asymmetry; Tidally induced Stokes transport; Wadden Sea

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC MOTION; COASTAL CIRCULATION; DRIFT BEHAVIOR; ESTUARINE DYNAMICS; FLOODING; FLOW MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHALLOW WATER; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIDAL INLET; VERTICAL MIXING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CENTRAL EUROPE; EAST FRISIAN ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRISIAN ISLANDS; GERMANY; LANGEOOG; LOWER SAXONY; NORTH SEA; SPIEKEROOG; WADDEN SEA;

EID: 33847652852     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2006.11.019     Document Type: Article

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