Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Definition and classification of estuaries
- 2 Estuarine salinity structure and circulation
- 3 Barotropic tides in channelized estuaries
- 4 Estuarine variability
- 5 Estuarine secondary circulation
- 6 Wind and tidally driven flows in a semienclosed basin
- 7 Mixing in estuaries
- 8 The dynamics of estuary plumes and fronts
- 9 Low-inflow estuaries: hypersaline, inverse, and thermal scenarios
- 10 Implications of estuarine transport for water quality
- Index
- References
7 - Mixing in estuaries
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Definition and classification of estuaries
- 2 Estuarine salinity structure and circulation
- 3 Barotropic tides in channelized estuaries
- 4 Estuarine variability
- 5 Estuarine secondary circulation
- 6 Wind and tidally driven flows in a semienclosed basin
- 7 Mixing in estuaries
- 8 The dynamics of estuary plumes and fronts
- 9 Low-inflow estuaries: hypersaline, inverse, and thermal scenarios
- 10 Implications of estuarine transport for water quality
- Index
- References
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- Contemporary Issues in Estuarine Physics , pp. 145 - 185Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010
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