The Role of Advection, Straining, and Mixing on the Tidal Variability of Estuarine Stratification

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 855-868

  Scully, Malcolm E ^a   Geyer, W Rockwell ^b  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM WATER; CROSS SECTION; FLOOD TIDE; HORIZONTAL GRADIENTS; HUDSON RIVER; SALINITY GRADIENTS; SALINITY STRATIFICATION; STRONG STRATIFICATION; TIDAL ASYMMETRY; TIDAL STRAINING; TIDAL VARIATIONS; TURBULENT MIXING; VERTICAL MIXING;

ADVECTION; MIXING; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

ESTUARIES;

ADVECTION; ESTUARINE DYNAMICS; ESTUARINE FRONT; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PYCNOCLINE; STRATIFICATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TIDAL CYCLE; TURBULENT MIXING;

HUDSON ESTUARY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84864506117     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-10-05010.1     Document Type: Article

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