Interplay between river discharge and tides in a delta distributary

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 80, Issue , 2015, Pages 69-78

  Leonardi, Nicoletta ^a   Kolker, Alexander S ^b   Fagherazzi, Sergio ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA UNIVERSITIES MARINE CONSORTIUM   (United States)

Author keywords

Phase lag; Residual currents; River discharge; Tidal pulses; Tides; Wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; TIDES; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

DISTRIBUTARY CHANNELS; FORMATION AND EVOLUTIONS; PHASE LAGS; RESIDUAL CURRENT; RIVER DISCHARGE; TIDAL PULSES; UNIDIRECTIONAL FLOW; VELOCITY AMPLITUDES;

RIVERS;

DELTA; HYDRODYNAMICS; RIVER DISCHARGE; TIDE; TRIBUTARY; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

APALACHICOLA RIVER; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84928163451     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2015.03.005     Document Type: Article

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