Lateral spreading of a near-field river plume: Observations and numerical simulations

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 114, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Chen, Fei ^a   MacDonald, Daniel G ^a   Hetland, Robert D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRIFUGATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

BUOYANCY TERM; CENTRIFUGAL FORCES; CONTROL VOLUMES; CORIOLIS TERMS; DIRECT ASSESSMENT; INTERFACIAL STRESS; INTERNAL WAVES; LATERAL MOMENTUM; LATERAL SPREADING; MASSACHUSETTS; MERRIMACK RIVER; NEAR FIELD REGION; NEAR-FIELD; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PLUME SPREADING; RIVER PLUME; SPREADING RATE; STREAMLINE CURVATURE; SURFACE DRIFTER; SURFACE LAYERS; TURBULENT MIXING;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BUOYANCY; CORIOLIS FORCE; DATA PROCESSING; INTERFACE; INTERNAL WAVE; MOMENTUM; NUMERICAL MODEL; RIVER PLUME; TURBULENT MIXING; WAVE VELOCITY;

MERRIMACK RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70349679007     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JC004893     Document Type: Article

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