Summer water circulation in Frenchman's Bay, a shallow coastal embayment connected to Lake Ontario

Journal of Great Lakes Research

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 548-559

  Wells, Mathew G ^a   Sealock, Lisa ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Exchange flows; Seiches; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC EVENTS; COASTAL EMBAYMENTS; EXCHANGE FLOW; EXCHANGE FLOWS; FRENCHMAN'S BAY; GREAT LAKES; LAKE ONTARIO; MASS BUDGET; NUTRIENT LOADING; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; SEICHES; SHALLOW EMBAYMENT; SHALLOW FRESHWATER; STORM SURGES; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TEMPERATURE STRATIFICATION; TIME-SCALES; WATER CIRCULATION; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER-FLUSHING; WATER-LEVEL FLUCTUATION;

BUDGET CONTROL; EUTROPHICATION; THERMAL GRADIENTS; THERMOANALYSIS; WATER LEVELS; WATER WAVES; WETLANDS;

LAKES;

TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TIMESCALE; WATER LEVEL; WETLAND;

FRENCHMAN BAY; GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE ONTARIO; MAINE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70449532474     PISSN: 03801330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jglr.2009.08.009     Document Type: Article

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