Using depth-normalized coordinates to examine mass transport residual circulation in estuaries with large tidal amplitude relative to the mean depth

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 128-148

  Giddings, Sarah N ^a   Monismith, Stephen G ^b   Fong, Derek A ^b   Stacey, Mark T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c 109 McLaughlin Hall   (United States)

Author keywords

Circulation Dynamics; Coastal flows; Estuaries; Geographic location entity; Lagrangian circulation transport; Mass fluxes transport; Momentum

Indexed keywords

COASTAL FLOW; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION; LAGRANGIAN CIRCULATION/TRANSPORT; MASS FLUXES/TRANSPORT; PHYSICAL INTERPRETATION; RESIDUAL CIRCULATIONS; VERTICAL COORDINATES;

FRICTION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MIXING; MOMENTUM;

ESTUARIES;

ADVECTION; ASYMMETRY; COASTAL CIRCULATION; ESTUARINE DYNAMICS; EULER FLOW; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MASS TRANSPORT; SALINITY; STRATIFICATION; TIDAL CYCLE; VERTICAL MIXING;

EID: 84892662480     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-12-0201.1     Document Type: Article

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