Influence of advective accelerations on estuarine exchange at a chesapeake bay tributary

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1617-1634

  Basdurak, Nuvit B ^a   Valle Levinson, Arnoldo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS   (United States)

^b J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Advection; Data processing; Estuaries; Momentum; Nonlinear dynamics; Ship observations

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL AND NUMERICAL MODELS; CHESAPEAKE BAY; CORIOLIS; EXCHANGE FLOW; HAMPTON; LANDWARD FLOW; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; RIVER DISCHARGE; TIDAL FORCING; VERTICAL ADVECTION; VIRGINIA; WATER COLUMNS; WIND FORCING;

DATA PROCESSING; DYNAMICS; ESTUARIES; MOMENTUM; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TIDES;

ADVECTION;

ADVECTION; CORIOLIS FORCE; ESTUARINE DYNAMICS; ESTUARY; MOMENTUM; NUMERICAL MODEL; RIVER DISCHARGE; TRIBUTARY; WIND FORCING;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; JAMES RIVER [VIRGINIA]; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

EID: 84871895174     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-11-0134.1     Document Type: Article

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