Dynamics of turbid buoyant plumes and the feedbacks on near-shore biogeochemistry and physics

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Cahill, Bronwyn ^a,b   Schofield, Oscar ^b   Chant, Robert ^b   Wilkin, John ^b   Hunter, Eli ^b   Glenn, Scott ^b   Bissett, Paul ^a  

^a Florida Environmental Research Institute   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CHLOROPHYLL; CONTROL THEORY; DISSOLUTION; FEEDBACK; FLUID DYNAMICS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PORPHYRINS; SURGE PROTECTION;

ATTENUATION COEFFICIENTS; BIOPHYSICAL MODELS; BUOYANCY DRIVEN; BUOYANT PLUMES; COLORED DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTERS; ECOLOGICAL RESPONSES; FEEDBACK MECHANISMS; FEEDBACKS]; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; HEAT BUDGETS; HIGH CONCENTRATIONS; HUDSON RIVERS; LIGHT ATTENUATIONS; MIXED LAYER DEPTHS; MODELING RESULTS; TURBID WATERS; UPPER WATER COLUMNS; VERTICAL PROFILES;

BUOYANCY;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CHLOROPHYLL; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DETRITUS; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; HEAT BUDGET; LIGHT ATTENUATION; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; RIVER PLUME; STRATIFICATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TURBIDITY CURRENT; VERTICAL PROFILE; WATER COLUMN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; HUDSON ESTUARY; NEW YORK BIGHT; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 58049084131     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL033595     Document Type: Article

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