Land or ocean?: Assessing the driving forces of submarine groundwater discharge at a coastal site in the gulf of mexico

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Santos, Isaac R ^a   Burnett, William C ^a   Chanton, Jeffrey ^a   Dimova, Natasha ^a   Peterson, Richard N ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; COASTAL ENGINEERING; DROUGHT; HYDROGEOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADON; SEAWATER; SEEPAGE; SUBMARINES; TRACE ELEMENTS;

COASTAL OCEAN; COASTAL SITES; DARCY'S LAW; DRIVING FORCES; EXTERNAL DISTURBANCES; GULF OF MEXICO; MARINE FORCES; MIXING MODELS; NUTRIENT CYCLING; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; RIVER INPUT; SCALING-UP; SEASONAL CYCLE; SEEPAGE METERS; SUBMARINE GROUNDWATER DISCHARGE; TEMPORAL TRENDS; TIDAL CYCLE; TIDAL PUMPING; WATER TABLES;

DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS);

DARCY LAW; DISCHARGE; DROUGHT; GROUNDWATER-SEAWATER INTERACTION; NUTRIENT CYCLING; RADON ISOTOPE; SALINITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; TIDAL CYCLE; TRACE ELEMENT; UNDERWATER ENVIRONMENT; WATER TABLE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 68149137458     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JC005038     Document Type: Article

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