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Author:   Ralph T. Cheng
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990
Volume:   38
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.953kg
ISBN:  

9781461390633

ISBN 10:   146139063
Pages:   544
Publication Date:   16 December 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

I. Introduction.- Interdisciplinary Estuarine Research: A Challenge for the Future.- II. Residual Currents.- The Dynamics of Long-Term Mass Transport in Estuaries.- On the Lagrangian Residual Velocity and the Mass-Transport in a Multi-Frequency Oscillatory System.- Residual Circulation in Shallow Estuaries: Shear, Stratification and Transport Processes.- Dynamics of Tidally Forced Basin-wide Coastal Eddies.- Three-Dimensional Modeling of the Tidally Induced Residual Circulation Off Southwest Nova Scotia.- Residual Currents in the Western Dutch Wadden Sea.- Impacts of Relative Sea-level Rise on Evolution of Shallow Estuaries.- Wind Domination of Residual Tidal Transport in a Coastal Lagoon.- III. Salt Mixing and Transport.- Salinity Stratification and Vertical Shear Transport in an Estuary.- Longitudinal Dispersion of Salt in the Volkerak Estuary.- Mixing and Trapping in Australian Tropical Coastal Waters.- Control of Estuarine Salinities by Coastal Ocean Salinity.- Mixing Processes in a Numerical Model of the Western Dutch Wadden Sea.- Numerical Simulation of Tidal Dispersion Around a Coastal Headland.- Circulation in the Salt Vedge Estuaries.- IV. Sediment Transport.- Laboratory Experiments on Sedimentation of Fine-grained Sediments: A State-of-the-Art Review in the Light of Experiments with the Delft Tidal Flume.- Estuarine Boundary Layers and Sediment Transport.- Morphological Processes in Shallow Tidal Seas.- Suspended Sediment Transport Processes in the Southern North Sea.- Some Observations on Erosion and Entrainment of Estuarine Fluid Muds.- A Plume Front in Hangzhou Bay and its Role in Suspended Sediment Transport.- Currents and Sediment Transport in the Seto Inland Sea, Japan.- Simulation of Suspended Sediment Dispersion in the North Sea.- V. Field Observationsand Other Applications.- Variations in Horizontal Density Gradient Forcing at the Mouth of an Estuary.- Persistence of Residual Currents in the James River Estuary and its Implication to Mass Transport.- Measurements of Residual Currents in the Coastal Zone with the OSCR HF Radar: A Review of Results from the May 1985 Experiment.- Analyses of Flux Measurements in the River Mersey.- Dynamics of Peel-Harvey Estuary, Southwest Australia.- On the Summer Circulation in New York Bight and Contiguous Estuarine Waters.- Salinity Intrusion and Residual Circulation in Delaware Bay During the Drought of 1984.- Wind and River Induced Fluctuations in a Small, Shallow, Tributary Estuary.- Circulation Dynamics in Mt. Hope Bay and the Lower Taunton River.- VI. Interdisciplinary Studies.- Recruitment in Estuarine Benthic Communities: The Role of Physical Processes.- A 3-D Eutrophication-diffusion Model of the Venice Lagoon: Some Applications.- List of Contributors.

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