Quantifying the contributions of tidal straining and gravitational circulation to residual circulation in periodically stratified tidal estuaries

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1243-1262

  Burchard, Hans ^a   Hetland, Robert D ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC SOLUTION; ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; EDDY VISCOSITY; ESTUARINE CIRCULATION; ESTUARINE TURBIDITY MAXIMUM; GENERATION MECHANISM; IRROTATIONAL FLOW; MEAN VELOCITY PROFILES; MODEL RESULTS; MOMENTUM EQUATION; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL PARAMETERS; NONDIMENSIONAL; NUMERICAL MODELING; PERIODIC FORCING; RESIDUAL FLOW; RICHARDSON NUMBER; STRATIFIED TIDAL FLOW; TEMPORAL CORRELATIONS; TIDAL ASYMMETRY; TIDAL ESTUARY; TIDAL STRAINING; TURBULENCE CLOSURES; TWO-EQUATION; VERTICAL SHEAR; WATER COLUMN EQUATIONS; WATER COLUMN MODELS; WIND DIRECTIONS; WIND FORCING; WIND SPEED;

BUOYANCY; EQUATIONS OF STATE; MIXED CONVECTION; RUNOFF; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STROUHAL NUMBER; TIDES; TURBIDITY; TURBULENCE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VISCOSITY;

ESTUARIES;

BUOYANCY; COASTAL CIRCULATION; ESTUARINE DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEAN TIDE; RICHARDSON NUMBER; STRATIFICATION;

EID: 77955652423     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JPO4270.1     Document Type: Article

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