Mixing of a contaminant-laden freshwater plume across Osaka Bay's tidal front near the Akashi Strait, Japan

31st IAHR Congress 2005: Water Engineering for the Future, Choices and Challenges

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 4192-4202

  Bricker, Jeremy D ^a   Okabe, Isao ^a   Nakayama, Akihiko ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Akashi Strait; Eddy; Front; Osaka Bay; River plume; Stratification; Tidal jet

Indexed keywords

OCEAN CURRENTS; RIVERS; TOPOGRAPHY;

FIELD SURVEYS; MASS BALANCE; OSAKA BAY; RIVER WATER; TIDAL CURRENTS; TIDAL FRONTS;

WATER;

EID: 85084745685     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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