Influence of lateral advection on residual currents in microtidal estuaries

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3177-3190

  Cheng, Peng ^a   Valle Levinson, Arnoldo ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH'S ROTATION; EKMAN NUMBERS; ESTUARINE DYNAMICS; EXCHANGE FLOW; LATERAL SHEAR; LATERAL STRUCTURES; NONDIMENSIONAL; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; RESIDUAL CURRENT; SCALING ANALYSIS; TWO LAYERS; VERTICAL MIXING;

ADVECTION; ROTATION;

ESTUARIES;

ADVECTION; EKMAN TRANSPORT; ESTUARINE DYNAMICS; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; OCEANIC CURRENT; ROSSBY NUMBER; VERTICAL MIXING;

EID: 77952537097     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JPO4252.1     Document Type: Article

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