Drivers of residual estuarine circulation in tidally energetic estuaries: Straight and irrotational channels with parabolic cross section

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 548-570

  Burchard, Hans ^a   Hetland, Robert D ^b   Schulz, Elisabeth ^a   Schuttelaars, Henk M ^c  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Esuaries; Numerical analysis modelling; Tides

Indexed keywords

BED ROUGHNESS; CROSS SECTION; DIVERGENT FLOW; ESTUARINE CIRCULATION; ESUARIES; IRROTATIONAL; NONDIMENSIONAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS/MODELLING; NUMERICAL MODELS; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; RIVER RUNOFFS; SALINITY GRADIENTS; SIMPSON; TIDAL FREQUENCIES; TIDAL STRAINING;

SALINITY MEASUREMENT; TIDES;

ESTUARIES;

ESTUARINE DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEAN TIDE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SALINITY;

EID: 79954996515     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JPO4453.1     Document Type: Article

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