A model diagnostic study of age of river-borne sediment transport in the tidal York River Estuary

Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 177-196

  Gong, Wenping ^a   Shen, Jian ^b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Age of sediment; Chesapeake Bay; Sediment modeling; Transport of suspended sediment; York River Estuary

Indexed keywords

ESTUARINE DYNAMICS; EUTROPHICATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICLE SETTLING; RESUSPENSION; RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER FLOW; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SETTLING VELOCITY; SHEAR STRESS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TIMESCALE;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA; YORK RIVER;

EID: 75949107687     PISSN: 15677419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10652-009-9144-5     Document Type: Article

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