A numerical study of residual circulation induced by asymmetric tidal mixing in tidally dominated estuaries

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

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

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC TELLER MACHINES; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; SOLIDS;

DENSITY DRIVEN FLOWS; EARTH'S ROTATION; EULERIAN; EXCHANGE FLOW; LANDWARD FLOW; LATERAL VARIATIONS; LONGITUDINAL DISTRIBUTION; NON-LINEARITY; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; RESIDUAL CURRENT; STRONG STRATIFICATION; THREE-LAYER STRUCTURES; TIDAL MIXING; TWO-LAYER STRUCTURES; WATER COLUMNS; WEAK STRATIFICATION;

ESTUARIES;

BATHYMETRY; EARTH ROTATION; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; EULERIAN ANALYSIS; FLOW FIELD; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; STRATIFICATION; TIDAL MODELING; WATER COLUMN;

EID: 79551635865     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JC006137     Document Type: Article

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