Subtidal sea level variability in a shallow Mississippi River deltaic estuary, Louisiana

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 802-812

  Snedden, Gregg A ^a,c   Cable, Jaye E ^a   Wiseman Jr , William J ^a,b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c NATIONAL WETLANDS RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; DELTA; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; SEA LEVEL; SHALLOW WATER; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; WIND STRESS;

BRETON SOUND; LOUISIANA; MISSISSIPPI RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 38349078714     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02841335     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. BARRAS, J. A. 2006. Land area change in coastal Louisiana after the 2005 hurricanes - A series of three maps: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 06-1274. U.S. Geological Survey, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
2. BARRAS, J. A., P. E. BOURGEOIS, AND L. R. HANDLEY. 1994. Land loss in coastal Louisiana 1956-1990. National Biological Survey, National Wetlands Research Center Open File Report 94-01. National Wetlands Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
3. BENDAT, J. S. AND A. G. PIERSOL. 1993. Engineering Applications of Correlation and Spectral Analysis, 2nd edition. Wiley, New York.
4. BLOOMFIELD, P. 1976. Fourier Analysis of Time Series: An Introduction. John Wiley, New York.
5. COASTAL PROTECTION AND RESTORATION AUTHORITY OF LOUISIANA. 2007. Integrated Ecosystem Restoration and Hurricane Protection: Louisiana's Comprehensive Master Plan for a Sustainable Coast. Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
6. COLEMAN, J. M., H. H. ROBERTS, AND G. W. STONE. 1998. The Mississippi River delta: An overview. Journal of Coastal Research 3: 698-716.
7. CURRENT, C. L. 1996. Spectral model simulation of wind driven subinertial circulation on the inner Texas-Louisiana Shelf. Ph.D. Dissertation, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.
8. ELLIOTT, A. J. AND D.-P. WANG. 1978. The effect of meteorological forcing on the Chesapeake Bay: The coupling between and estuarine system and its adjacent coastal waters, p. 127-145. In J. C. J. Nihoul (ed.), Hydrodynamics of Estuaries and Fjords. Proceedings of the 9th International Colloquium on Ocean Hydrodynamics. Elsvier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
9. FILADELFO, R., R. E. WILSON, AND E. GOMEZ-REYES. 1991. Subtidal Eulerian currents in the upper and lower East River tidal straight: Spring 1981. Journal of Geophysical Research 96:15217-15226.
10. GARRETT, C. AND B. TOULANY. 1982. Sea level variability due to meteorological forcing in the northwest Gulf of St. Lawrence. Journal of Geophysical Research 87:1968-1978.
11. GARVINE, R. W. 1985. A simple model of estuarine subtidal fluctuations forced by local and remote wind stress. Journal of Geophysical Research 90:11945-11948.
12. GARVINE, R. W., R. K. MCCARTHY, AND K.-C. WONG. 1992. The axial salinity distribution in the Delaware estuary and its weak response to river discharge. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 35:157-165.
13. ISERI, K. T. AND W. B. LANGBEIN. 1974. Large rivers of the United States. U.S. Geological Survey Circular 686. U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia.
14. JANZEN, C. D. AND K.-C. WONG. 1998. On the low-frequency transport processes in a shallow coastal lagoon. Estuaries 21:754-756.
15. JANZEN, C. D. AND K.-C. WONG. 2002. Wind-forced dynamics at the estuary-shelf interface of a large coastal plain estuary. Journal of Geophysical Research 107:3138, doi:10.1029/ 2001JC000959.
16. JENKINS, G. M. AND D. G. WATTS. 1998. Spectral Analysis and Its Applications, 5th edition. Emerson-Adams Press, Boca Raton, Florida.
17. LARGE, W. G. AND S. POND. 1981. Open ocean momentum flux measurements in moderate to strong winds. Journal of Physical Oceanography 11:324-336.
18. LOUISIANA COASTAL WETLAND CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION TASK FORCE. 1998. Coast 2050: Toward a Sustainable Coastal Louisiana. Louisiana Department of Natural Resources, Coastal Restoration Division, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
19. LUETTICH, R. A., S. E. CARR, J. V. REYNOLDS- FLEMMING, C. W. FULCHER, AND J. E. MCNINCH. 2002. Semi-diurnal seiching in a shallow, microtidal lagoonal estuary. Continental Shelf Research 22:1669-1681.
20. MADDEN, C. J., J. W. DAY, JR., AND J. M. RANDALL. 1988. Freshwater and marine coupling in estuaries of the Mississippi River deltaic plain. Limnology and Oceanography 33:982-1004.
21. MIRANDA, L. B., A. L. BÉRGAMO, AND B. M. CASTRO. 2005. Interactions of river discharge and tidal modulation in a tropical estuary, NE Brazil. Ocean Dynamics 55:430-440.
22. NOBLE, M. A., W. W. SCHROEDER, W. J. WISEMAN, JR., H. F. RYAN, AND G. GELFENBAUM. 1996. Subtidal circulation patterns in a shallow, highly stratified estuary: Mobile Bay, Alabama. Journal of Geophysical Research 101:25689-25703.
23. PRITCHARD, D. W. 1955. Estuarine circulation patterns. Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers 81:717-729.
24. ROBERTS, H. H. 1997. Dynamic changes of the Holocene Mississippi River delta plain: The delta cycle. Journal of Coastal Research 13:605-627.
25. SCHROEDER, W. W., W. J. WISEMAN, JR., AND S. P. DINNEL. 1990. Wind and river induced fluctuations in a small, shallow, tributary estuary, p. 481-493. In R. T. Cheng (ed.), Residual Currents and Long Term Transport. Coastal and Estuarine Studies Volume 38 Springer-Verlag, New York.
26. SNEDDEN, G. A., J. E. CABLE, C. SWARZENSKI, AND E. SWENSON. 2007. Sediment discharge into a subsiding Louisiana deltaic estuary through a Mississippi River diversion. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 81:181-193.
27. STERN, M. K., J. W. DAY, JR., AND K. G. TEAGUE. 1991. Nutrient transport in a riverine-influenced tidal freshwater bayou in Louisiana. Estuaries 14:382-394.
28. SWENSON, E. M., J. E. CABLE, B. FRY, D. JUSTIC, A. DAS, G. SNEDDEN, AND C. SWARZENSKI. 2006. Estuarine flushing times influenced by freshwater diversions, p. 403-412. In V. P. Singh and Y. J. Xu (eds.), Coastal Hydrology and Processes. Water Resources Publications, Highlands Ranch, Colorado.
29. THOMAS, R. G. 1999. Fish habitat and coastal restoration in Louisiana. American Fisheries Society Symposium 22:240-251.
30. U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS. 2004. Louisiana Coastal Area: Ecosystem Restoration Study. Main Report. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans, Louisiana.
31. WANG, D.-P. 1979. Subtidal sea level variations in the Chesapeake Bay and relations to atmospheric forcing. Journal of Physical Oceanography 9:413-421.
32. WEISBERG, R. H. 1976. The nontidal flow in the Providence River of Narragansett Bay: A stochastic approach to estuarine circulation. Journal of Physical Oceanography 6:721-934.
33. WONG, K.-C. 1990. Sea level variability in Long Island Sound. Estuaries 13:362-372.
34. WONG, K.-C. 1995. On the relationship between long-term salinity variations and river discharge in the middle reach of the Delaware Estuary. Journal of Geophysical Research 100:20705-20713.
35. WONG, K.-C. AND J. E. MOSES-HALL. 1998. On the relative importance of the remote and local wind effects to the subtidal variability in a coastal plain estuary. Journal of Geophysical Research 89:18393-18404.