Estuarine boundary layer mixing processes: Insights from dye experiments

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1859-1877

  Chant, Robert J ^a   Geyer, Wayne R ^b   Houghton, Robert ^c   Hunter, Elias ^a   Lerczak, James ^b,d  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUOYANCY; ESTUARIES; FLOODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TIDES;

ESTUARINE BOUNDARY LAYER; RICHARDSON NUMBER; STRESS-DRIVEN ENTRAINMENT MODEL;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BOUNDARY LAYER; BUOYANCY; EDDY; ENTRAINMENT; ESTUARINE DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MIXING; MODELING; OCEAN TIDE; PYCNOCLINE; RICHARDSON NUMBER; VISCOSITY;

HUDSON ESTUARY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

PORPHYRA UMBILICALIS;

EID: 34548010550     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO3088.1     Document Type: Article

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