Tidally-induced sediment transport patterns in the upper Bay of Fundy: A numerical study

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 31, Issue 19-20, 2011, Pages 2041-2053

  Wu, Yongsheng ^a   Chaffey, Jason ^a   Greenberg, David A ^a   Colbo, Keir ^a   Smith, Peter C ^a  

^a BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hydrodynamic model; Model evaluation; Sediment transport; The upper Bay of Fundy

Indexed keywords

BEDLOAD; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA SET; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; GYRE; HYDRODYNAMICS; MAGNITUDE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SHEAR STRESS; SURFICIAL SEDIMENT; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TIDAL CONSTITUENT; TIDAL CURRENT; TIDAL POWER; VELOCITY; WATER COLUMN;

CANADA; MINAS BASIN; NOVA SCOTIA;

EID: 81855164671     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2011.10.009     Document Type: Article

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