Importance of cross-channel bathymetry and eddy viscosity parameterisation in modelling estuarine flow

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 603-631

  Zitman, Tjerk J ^a   Schuttelaars, Henk M ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Advective momentum transfer; Diagnostic modelling; Tidal estuaries

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATE SOLUTION; CHESAPEAKE BAY; DIAGNOSTIC MODEL; DIAGNOSTIC MODELLING; EDDY VISCOSITY; FLOW INDUCED; FORCINGS; IDEALIZED MODELS; LEADING ORDERS; LOCAL CHARACTERISTICS; MODEL EQUATIONS; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; SEMI-ANALYTICAL; SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS; SPATIAL PATTERNS; TIDAL CHANNEL; TIDAL ESTUARY;

BATHYMETRY; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; ESTUARIES; NUMERICAL MODELS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BATHYMETRIC SURVEY; CHANNEL FLOW; EDDY COVARIANCE; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; PARAMETERIZATION; SHALLOW WATER; TIDAL CHANNEL; VISCOSITY;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84861094102     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-011-0513-5     Document Type: Article

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