Residual Circulation, Mixing, and Dispersion

Treatise on Estuarine and Coastal Science

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 75-89

  MacCready, P ^a   Banas, N S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-374711-2.00205-9     Document Type: Chapter

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