Dynamics of the buoyant plume off the Pearl River Estuary in summer

Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 471-492

  Ou, Suying ^a,b   Zhang, Hong ^c   Wang, Dong Xiao ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Buoyant plume; Pearl River Estuary; River discharge; The northern shelf of SCS; Wind

Indexed keywords

BUOYANT PLUME; COASTAL CURRENTS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FIELD MEASUREMENT; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PEARL RIVER ESTUARY; PLUME SIZE; PLUME SPREADING; RIVER DISCHARGE; SOUTH CHINA SEA; THE NORTHERN SHELF OF SCS; TRANSPORT PROCESS; TYPE II; WIND CONDITIONS; WIND STRENGTH;

BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTUARIES; FLUID DYNAMICS; GEMS; THERMAL PLUMES; WIND STRESS;

RIVERS;

COASTAL CURRENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER PLUME; SALINITY; SUMMER; WIND FORCING;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GUANGDONG; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA; ZHUJIANG ESTUARY;

EID: 70349586499     PISSN: 15677419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10652-009-9146-3     Document Type: Article

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