Modeling of the cape fear river estuary plume

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 698-709

  Xia, Meng ^a   Xie, Lian ^a   Pietrafesa, Leonard J ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL WATER; MODELING; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PLUME; RIVER DISCHARGE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

CAPE FEAR ESTUARY; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 35348847758     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02841966     Document Type: Article

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