Structure and composition of a strongly stratified, tidally pulsed river plume

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 114, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Nash, Jonathan D ^a   Kilcher, Levi F ^a   Moum, James N ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTUARIES; FLOW OF WATER; TURBULENCE;

COASTAL CIRCULATION; COLUMBIA RIVER; CRITICAL PROPERTIES; ESTUARINE CIRCULATION; FLOOD AND EBB; FRESHWATER INPUTS; FRESHWATER RIVERS; HORIZONTAL ADVECTION; INITIAL COMPOSITION; NONDIMENSIONAL; RICHARDSON NUMBER; RIVER FLOW; RIVER PLUME; TIDAL MIXING; TURBULENCE DISSIPATION RATE; TURBULENT ENTRAINMENT; TURBULENT FLUX; TURBULENT MIXING; VOLUMETRIC FLOW RATE;

RIVERS;

ADVECTION; COASTAL CIRCULATION; DISSIPATION; ESTUARY; FLOOD; FLOW VELOCITY; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; RICHARDSON NUMBER; RIVER FLOW; RIVER PLUME; SALINITY; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT MIXING;

COLUMBIA RIVER;

EID: 73649141551     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JC005036     Document Type: Article

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