Multi-scale modeling of Puget Sound using an unstructured-grid coastal ocean model: From tide flats to estuaries and coastal waters

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1621-1637

  Yang, Zhaoqing ^a   Khangaonkar, Tarang ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Estuarine circulation; Numerical model; Puget Sound; Stratification; Tide flat; Tides

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION MODELS; COASTAL OCEAN; COASTAL OCEAN MODEL; COASTAL WATERS; ECOLOGICAL HEALTH; ESTUARINE CIRCULATION; ESTUARINE SYSTEMS; ESTUARY SYSTEM; FINITE VOLUME; FORCINGS; FRASER RIVER; GENERAL CIRCULATION; GEORGIA; HIGH RESOLUTION; HYDRODYNAMIC MODEL; HYDRODYNAMIC RESPONSE; MODEL RESULTS; MULTI-SCALE MODELING; NEARSHORES; NUMERICAL MODELS; OBSERVED DATA; OCEAN WATER; OPEN BOUNDARIES; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; PUGET SOUND; RIVER INFLOW; RIVER PLUME; SUBBASINS; TIDAL ELEVATIONS; UNSTRUCTURED GRID; WATER CIRCULATION;

COASTAL ENGINEERING; ERROR STATISTICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; RIVERS; THERMAL STRATIFICATION; TIDES; WATER QUALITY;

ESTUARIES;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; COASTAL WATER; COASTAL ZONE; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; EVAPORATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRESSURE EFFECT; RESOLUTION; RIVER PLUME; SALINITY; SHORELINE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIDAL CHANNEL; TIDAL FLAT;

JUAN DE FUCA STRAIT; PUGET SOUND; STRAIT OF GEORGIA; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 83655192809     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-010-0348-5     Document Type: Article

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