The influence of dunes on mixing in a migrating salt-wedge: Fraser River estuary, Canada

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 460-465

  Kostaschuk, Ray ^a   Best, Jim ^b   Villard, Paul V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c Geomorphic Solutions   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dunes; Flat bed; Fraser estuary; Mixing; Salt wedge

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILERS; BED FRICTION; BEDFORMS; COMMON FEATURES; DENSITY CURRENTS; DUNE FIELDS; DUNES; ECHO SOUNDERS; FLAT-BED; FLUID MIXING; FRASER ESTUARY; FRASER RIVER ESTUARY , CANADA; IN-PHASE; INTERFACIAL MIXING; INTERNAL FROUDE NUMBER; RICHARDSON NUMBER; SAND DUNES; SAND-BEDS; SUPER-CRITICAL; WATER COLUMNS; WEDGE FLOW;

DOPPLER EFFECT; FLOW VISUALIZATION; FRICTION; MIXING; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STREAM FLOW; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ESTUARIES;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; BEDFORM; DUNE FIELD; ECHO SOUNDER; FLUID FLOW; FROUDE NUMBER; MIXING; RICHARDSON NUMBER; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; VISUALIZATION;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; FRASER ESTUARY;

EID: 77950241977     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1928     Document Type: Article

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