River-tide dynamics: Exploration of nonstationary and nonlinear tidal behavior in the Yangtze River estuary

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 3499-3521

  Guo, Leicheng ^a,b   Van Der Wegen, Mick ^b,c   Jay, David A ^d   Matte, Pascal ^e   Wang, Zheng Bing ^a,c,f   Roelvink, Dano ^b,c,f   He, Qing ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^c DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^d Portland State University   (United States)

^e CENTRE EAU TERRE ENVIRONNEMENT   (Canada)

^f DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

nonstationary tides; river tide; subtidal variation; tidal analysis

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE; DATA SET; EXPLORATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; NAVIGATION CHANNEL; NONLINEARITY; RIVER DISCHARGE; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; TIDAL CYCLE; WAVELENGTH; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

CHINA; YANGTZE ESTUARY;

EID: 84963949232     PISSN: 21699275     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JC010491     Document Type: Article

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