Critical Flow for Water Management in a Shallow Tidal River Based on Estuarine Residence Time

Water Resources Management

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2367-2385

  Huang, Wenrui ^a,b   Liu, Xiaohai ^a   Chen, Xinjian ^c   Flannery, Michael S ^c  

^a FAMU FSU COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (United States)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Southwest Florida Water Management District   (United States)

Author keywords

Drought; ERT; Estuarine residence time; Estuary; Flow reduction; Hydrodynamic modeling; Minimum flow; Tidal river; Water management

Indexed keywords

ERT; FLOW REDUCTION; HYDRODYNAMIC MODELING; MINIMUM FLOW; RESIDENCE TIME; TIDAL RIVER;

DROUGHT; ESTUARIES; FLOW OF WATER; HYDRODYNAMICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TIDAL POWER; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

RIVERS;

CRITICAL FLOW; DROUGHT; ESTUARY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INFLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESIDENCE TIME; RIVER FLOW; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER RESOURCE;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; LITTLE MANATEE RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79960739851     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-011-9813-2     Document Type: Article

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