Toward a unified theory of tidally-averaged estuarine salinity structure

Estuaries

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 561-570

  MacCready, Parker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; ESTUARINE DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SALINITY;

CALIFORNIA; DELAWARE BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 4344691398     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02907644     Document Type: Article

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