Circular plumes in Lake Pontchartrain estuary under wind straining

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 161-172

  Li, Chunyan ^a,e   Walker, Nan ^a   Hou, Aixin ^a   Georgiou, Ioannis ^b   Roberts, Harry ^a   Laws, Ed ^a   McCorquodale, J Alex ^c   Weeks, Eddie ^a   Li, Xiaofeng ^d,e   Crochet, Jessica ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of New Orleans   (United States)

^c UNO College of Engineering   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e SHANGHAI OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

estuarine circulation; saltwater intrusion; tidal straining

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM WATER; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PLUME; SALINE INTRUSION; SALINITY; STRATIFICATION; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TIDAL CURRENT; TURBIDITY; TURBULENT MIXING; WIND FORCING;

LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN; LOUISIANA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 52149086343     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2008.07.020     Document Type: Article

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