Impact of density gradients on net sediment transport into the Wadden Sea

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 566-587

  Burchard, Hans ^a   Flöser, Götz ^b   Staneva, Joanna V ^c   Badewien, Thomas H ^c   Riethmüller, Rolf ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEAN CURRENTS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TIDES;

DENSITY GRADIENTS; ESTUARINE CIRCULATION; NET PRECIPITATION; TIDAL CURRENTS; TIDAL MIXING; TIDAL STRAINING;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TIDAL CURRENT; WATER COLUMN; WINTER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GERMAN BIGHT; NORTH SEA; WADDEN SEA;

EID: 43149124873     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JPO3796.1     Document Type: Article

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