Exchange between Long Island Sound and adjacent waters

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 109, Issue 6, 2004, Pages

  Gay, Peter S ^a   O'Donnell, James ^a   Edwards, Christopher A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Exchange; Salt budget; Transport

Indexed keywords

COASTAL CIRCULATION; FRESHWATER INPUT; NUMERICAL MODEL; SALINITY; WATER EXCHANGE;

LONG ISLAND SOUND; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 4444321850     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JC002319     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Banas, N. S., B. M. Hickey, P. MacCready, and J. A. Newton (2004), Dynamics of Willapa Bay, Washington, a highly unsteady partially mixed estuary, J. Phys. Oceanogr., in press.
2. Blumberg, A. F., and D. W. Pritchard (1997), Estimates of the transport through the East River, New York, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 5685-5703.
3. Cameron, W. M., and D. W. Pritchard (1963), Estuaries, in The Sea, vol. 2, edited by M. N. Hill, pp. 306-324, John Wiley, New York.
4. Garvine, R. W. (1985), A simple model of estuarine subtidal fluctuations forced by local and remote wind stress, J. Geophys. Res., 90, 945-948.
5. 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 Shelf Sci., 35, 157-165.
6. Gilcoto, M., X. A. Alvarez-Salgado, and F. F. Perez (2001), Computing optimum estuarine residual fluxes with a multiparameter inverse method (OERFIM): Application to the Ria de Vigo (NW Spain), J. Geophys. Res., 106, 31,303-31,318.
7. Hansen, E. V., and M. Rattray (1966), New dimensions in estuary classification, Limnol. Oceanogr., 3, 319-326.
8. Jay, D. A., and M. J. Bowman (1975), The physical oceanography and water quality of New York Harbor and western Long Island Sound, Tech. Rep. 23, Mar. Sci. Res. Cent., Stony Brook, N. Y.
9. Kaputa, N. P., and C. B. Olsen (2000), Summer hypoxia monitoring survey '91 - '98 data review, Long Island Sound Water Qual. Monit. Program, Conn. Dep. of Environ. Protect., Hartford.
10. Knudsen, M. (1900), Ein Hydrographische Lehrsatz, Ann. Hydrogr Mar. Meterol., 28, 316-320.
11. Linden, P. F., and J. E. Simpson (1986), Gravity driven flows in a turbulent fluid, J. Fluid Mech., 172, 481-497.
12. MacCready, P. (2004), Toward a unified theory of tidally-averaged estuarine salinity structure, Estuaries, in press.
13. McCarthy, R. K. (1991), A two-dimensional analytical model of density-driven residual currents in tidally dominated, well-mixed estuaries, Ph.D. diss., 174 pp., Univ. of Del., Newark.
14. Monismith, S. G., W. Kimmerer, J. R. Burau, and M. T. Stacey (2002), Structure and flow-induced variability of the subtidal salinity field in northern San Francisco Bay, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 32, 3003-3019.
15. Press, W. H., B. P. Flannery, S. A. Teukolsky, and W. T. Vetterling (1989), Numerical Recipes, 702 pp., Cambridge Univ. Press, New York.
16. Riley, G. A. (1952), Hydrography of the Long Island and Block Island Sounds, Bull. Bingham Oceanogr. Collect., 13, article 3.
17. Riley, G. A. (1967), Transport and mixing processes in Long Island Sound, Bull. Bingham Oceanogr. Collect., 19, article 2.
18. Squires, D. F. (1981), The bight of the Big Apple, Rep. NYSG-RS-81-00, Sea Grant Inst., Stony Brook, N. Y.
19. Viera, M. E. C. (2000), The long-term residual circulation in Long Island Sound, Estuaries, 23, 199-207.
20. Wilson, R. E. (1976), Gravitational circulation in Long Island Sound, New Estuarine Coastal Mar. Sci., 4, 443-453.
21. Wilson, R. E., K. C. Wong, and R. Filadelfo (1985), Low-frequency sea level variability in the vicinity of the East River tidal strait, J. Geophys. Res., 90, 954-960.
22. Wong, K. C. (1991), The effect of East River on the barotropic motions in Long Island Sound, J. Marine Res., 49, 321-337.
23. Wong, K. C., and R. W. Garvine (1984), Observations of wind-induced, subtidal variability in the Delaware Estuary, J. Geophys. Res., 89, 10,589-10,597.
24. Wunsch, C. (1996), The Ocean Circulation Inverse Problem, 442 pp., Cambridge Univ. Press, New York.