Analysis of tidal straining as driver for estuarine circulation in well-mixed estuaries

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 261-271

  Burchard, Hans ^a   Schuttelaars, Henk M ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coastal flows; Mixing; Momentum; Tides

Indexed keywords

COASTAL FLOW; DRIVING FORCES; EDDY VISCOSITY; ESTUARINE CIRCULATION; INTERNAL PRESSURE; KEY PROCESS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PHYSICAL PROCESS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIDAL ESTUARY; TIDAL STRAINING; VELOCITY COMPONENTS; VERTICAL SHEAR; WELL-MIXED ESTUARY;

ADVECTION; EXPERIMENTS; MIXING; MOMENTUM; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SHEAR FLOW; TIDES;

ESTUARIES;

EDDY; ESTUARINE DYNAMICS; MIXING; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PRESSURE GRADIENT; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84857752651     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-11-0110.1     Document Type: Article

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