Including drag and inertia in drifter modelling

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 714-728

  Furnans, Jordan ^a   Imberger, Jörg ^b   Hodges, Ben R ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Circulation; Drifters; Hydrodynamic modelling; Lagrangian; Marmion Marine Park; Western Australia

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; ESTUARIES; HYDRODYNAMICS; LAKES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DRIFTERS; HYDRODYNAMIC MODELING; MARMION MARINE PARK; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

CIRCULATION; DRIFTER; HYDRODYNAMICS; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MODELING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; MARMION MARINE PARK; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 39049131676     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2007.09.010     Document Type: Article

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