Turbulence and turbulent flux events in a small estuary

Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 345-368

  Trevethan, Mark ^a,b   Chanson, Hubert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic Doppler velocimetry; Burstiness index; Field measurements; Geophysical flows; Small subtropical estuary; Turbulence; Turbulent bursting events; Turbulent fluxes; Turbulent sub events

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; ESTUARY; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; OPEN CHANNEL FLOW; TURBULENCE; UNSTEADY FLOW;

EID: 77952011972     PISSN: 15677419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10652-009-9134-7     Document Type: Article

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