Residual currents induced by asymmetric tidal mixing in weakly stratified narrow estuaries

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2135-2147

  Cheng, Peng ^a,b   Valle Levinson, Arnoldo ^a   De Swart, Huib E ^c  

^a J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Currents; Estuaries; Mixing; Shear structure flows; Tides

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL AND NUMERICAL MODELS; ANALYTICAL MODEL; CURRENTS; DENSITY DRIVEN FLOWS; ESTUARINE DYNAMICS; FLOOD AND EBB; LANDWARD FLOW; LONGITUDINAL DISTRIBUTION; LONGITUDINAL MOMENTUM; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL MODELS; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; REGIONAL OCEAN MODELING SYSTEM; RESIDUAL CURRENT; RESIDUAL FLOW; SHEAR STRUCTURE/FLOWS; TIDAL ASYMMETRY; TIDAL CURRENTS; TIDAL MIXING; TIDAL VARIATIONS; TWO LAYERS; VERTICAL EDDY VISCOSITIES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTUARIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OCEAN CURRENTS; TIDES;

SHEAR FLOW;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTUARINE DYNAMICS; FLOODING; FLOW MODELING; MIXED LAYER; MIXING RATIO; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CURRENT; RESIDUAL FLOW; SHEAR FLOW; STRATIFIED FLOW; TIDAL CURRENT; TIDAL CYCLE;

EID: 78049299146     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JPO4314.1     Document Type: Article

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