Assessment of a 3D hydrostatic model (POM) in the near field of a buoyant river plume in Lake Michigan

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 226, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Nekouee, Navid ^a   Hamidi, Sajad Ahmad ^b   Roberts, Philip J W ^c   Schwab, David J ^d  

^a TETRA TECH INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydrodynamic; Numerical modeling; River plume; Thermal diffusion; Two layer flow

Indexed keywords

3D MODELING; BUOYANCY; HYDRAULICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; LAKES; NUMERICAL MODELS; RIVERS; THERMAL DIFFUSION;

HYDRODYNAMIC MODEL; INTERFACE CURRENTS; NEARSHORE HYDRODYNAMICS; PREDICTIVE CAPABILITIES; PRINCETON OCEAN MODEL; RIVER PLUME; TWO-LAYER FLOWS; WEAK STRATIFICATION;

RIVER POLLUTION;

LAKE WATER;

FLOW VELOCITY; HYDROSTATICS; LAKE WATER; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RIVER PLUME; STRATIFICATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM MONITORING; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; PLUME; PREDICTION; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMAL DIFFUSION; THREE DIMENSIONAL HYDRODYNAMIC MODEL; UNITED STATES;

GRAND RIVER [MICHIGAN]; GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE MICHIGAN; MICHIGAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84935866200     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-015-2488-1     Document Type: Article

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