Assessment of water exchange between a discharge region and the open sea - A comparison of different methodological concepts

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 709-721

  Döös, Kristofer ^a   Engqvist, Anders ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Lagrangian dispersion; Lagrangian trajectories; passive tracers; radio nuclides; residence time

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISCHARGE; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; RADIONUCLIDE; RESIDENCE TIME; WATER EXCHANGE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

EID: 34547754076     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2007.05.017     Document Type: Article

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