Modeling and understanding turbulent mixing in a macrotidal salt wedge estuary

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Wang, B ^a   Giddings, S N ^a   Fringer, O B ^a   Gross, E S ^a   Fong, D A ^a   Monismith, S G ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECAY (ORGANIC); FORECASTING; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SHOCK TUBES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

A-DENSITY; A-STABILITY; BOTTOM MIXED LAYERS; DECAY RATE; EXTREME CONDITIONS; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH SENSITIVITY; INTERMEDIATE LEVEL; LENGTH SCALE; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PARAMETERIZED; REAL SYSTEMS; REYNOLDS STRESS; RICHARDSON NUMBER; SKILL SCORE; SPATIO-TEMPORAL DYNAMICS; STABILITY FUNCTION; STRONG STRATIFICATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; TURBULENT MIXING; TWO-EQUATION; UNSTRUCTURED GRID; VERTICAL MIXING;

MIXING;

BUOYANCY; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MAGNITUDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RESOLUTION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; RICHARDSON NUMBER; SALINITY; SALT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STRATIFICATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TIDAL CYCLE; TURBULENT MIXING; VELOCITY; VERTICAL MIXING;

EID: 79952296847     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JC006135     Document Type: Article

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