Contemporary issues in estuarine physics /

Estuaries are of high socioeconomic importance with 22 of the 32 largest cities in the world located on river estuaries. Estuaries bring together fluxes of fresh and saline water, as well as fluvial and marine sediments, and contain high biological diversity. Increasingly sophisticated field observa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Valle-Levinson, A. (Arnoldo)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Temas:
Estuaries.
Estuaries > Hydrodynamics.
Estuaires.
Estuaires > Hydrodynamique.
estuaries.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Oceanography.
NATURE > Ecosystems & Habitats > Oceans & Seas.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Definition and classification of estuaries
  • Estuarine salinity structure and circulation
  • Barotropic tides in channelized estuaries
  • Estuarine variability
  • Estuarine secondary circulation
  • Wind and tidally driven flows in semienclosed basin
  • Mixing in estuaries
  • The dynamics of estuary plumes and fronts
  • Low-inflow estuaries: hypersaline, inverse, and thermal scenarios
  • Implications of estuarine transport for water quality.

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