Wetland-estuarine-shelf interactions in the Plum Island Sound and Merrimack River in the Massachusetts coast

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 115, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Zhao, Liuzhi ^a   Chen, Changsheng ^a,c,e   Vallino, Joe ^c   Hopkinson, Charles ^d   Beardsley, Robert C ^b   Lin, Huichan ^a   Lerczak, Jim ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

^b MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e SHANGHAI OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTUARIES; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WATER CONTENT; WETLANDS;

COASTAL OCEAN MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL DOMAINS; EBB TIDES; FINITE VOLUME; FLOOD TIDE; FRESHWATER DISCHARGE; GULF OF MAINE; HIGH RESOLUTION; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; INTERACTION PROCESS; MASSACHUSETTS; MERRIMACK RIVER; OPEN BOUNDARIES; PRIMITIVE EQUATIONS; RE-CIRCULATION LOOPS; RIVER DISCHARGE; SALT CONTENT; SALT TRANSPORT; SALT WATER; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TIDAL CYCLE; UNSTRUCTURED GRID; WATER EXCHANGE; WATER FLUX; WATER TRANSPORT; WIND CONDITIONS; WIND FORCING;

RIVERS;

NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER SYSTEM; WATER EXCHANGE; WETLAND; WIND FORCING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MAINE; MASSACHUSETTS; MERRIMACK RIVER; PLUM ISLAND SOUND; UNITED STATES;

PRUNUS DOMESTICA;

EID: 77958592568     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC006085     Document Type: Article

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