Modeling water exchange between Baltimore Harbor and Chesapeake Bay using artificial tracers: Seasonal variations

Marine Environmental Research

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 102-119

  Hong, Bo ^a   Panday, Nauth ^b   Shen, Jian ^a   Wang, Harry V ^a   Gong, Wenping ^c   Soehl, Anna ^b  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^b Maryland Department of Environmental Quality   (United States)

^c SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Age; Baltimore Harbor; Chesapeake Bay; Three dimensional model; Tracer; Water exchange

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL TRACERS; BALTIMORE HARBOR; BOTTOM LAYERS; CHESAPEAKE BAY; CIRCULATION PATTERNS; DOMINANT PATHWAYS; HIGH CONCENTRATION; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; RESIDUAL FLOW; RIVER DISCHARGE; SEASONAL VARIATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL HYDRODYNAMIC MODELS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; THREE-LAYER; TRANSPORT PROCESS; UPPER LAYER; WATER EXCHANGE; WATER MASS;

DISSOLUTION; HYDROCARBON REFINING; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; OCEANOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

PORTS AND HARBORS;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HYDRODYNAMICS; INFLOW; PRESSURE GRADIENT; RIVER DISCHARGE; SEASONAL VARIATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRACER; WATER EXCHANGE; WATER MASS;

ARTICLE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; HYDRODYNAMICS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SALINITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; STRATIFICATION; UNITED STATES; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

BALTIMORE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESH WATER; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; SEASONS; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS;

BALTIMORE HARBOR; CHESAPEAKE BAY; MARYLAND; SUSQUEHANNA RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77953545160     PISSN: 01411136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2010.03.010     Document Type: Article

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