Observations of short-circuiting flow paths within a free-surface wetland in Augusta, Georgia, U.S.A.

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1040-1053

  Lightbody, Anne F ^a,b   Avener, Margaret E ^a,c   Nepf, Heidi M ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTRANSFORMATION; FLOW PATTERN; FLOW VELOCITY; MIXING; OPEN WATER; RESIDENT POPULATION; VEGETATION; WATER FLOW; WETLAND; WIND DIRECTION;

AUGUSTA; GEORGIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 44949123419     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2008.53.3.1040     Document Type: Article

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