Spreading in the near-field Merrimack River plume

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 21, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 12-21

  Hetland, Robert D ^a   MacDonald, Daniel G ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; ESTUARIES; GRAVITY WAVES;

BUOYANT PLUMES; FUNCTION RADIAL DISTANCE; INTERNAL GRAVITY WAVE; PLUME WIDTH;

RIVERS;

ESTUARINE DYNAMICS; ESTUARY; GRAVITY WAVE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RIVER PLUME; WAVE VELOCITY;

MERRIMACK RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 38749132835     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2007.11.001     Document Type: Article

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