Fjord Oceanography

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Pacific Fjords - A Review of Their Water Characteristics....Pages 1-51
Why Biologists are Interested in Fjords....Pages 53-66
The Fluid Mechanical Problem of Fjord Circulations....Pages 67-116
Topographic Effects in Stratified Fluids....Pages 117-140
Barotropic and Baroclinic Response of a Semi-Enclosed Basin to Barotropic Forcing from the Sea....Pages 141-164
A Linear Model of Internal Tides in Sill Fjords....Pages 165-171
Tidally-Forced Stratified Flow over Sills....Pages 173-180
Geostrophic Fronts....Pages 181-189
Modelling of Mixing Processes in the Surface Layers of the Ocean....Pages 191-195
Experimental Simulation of the ‘Retreat’ of the Seasonal Thermocline by Surface Heating....Pages 197-204
Turbulent Entrainment at a Buoyancy Interface Due to Convective Turbulence....Pages 205-213
Energetics of Mixing Processes in Fjords....Pages 215-218
Mixing- and Exchange Processes in a Small Greenland Sill Fjord....Pages 219-225
Mixing Experiments in Fjords....Pages 227-232
Tracer Measurement of Mixing in the Deep Water of a Small, Stratified Sill Fjord....Pages 233-240
Estimation of Vertical Mixing Rates in Fjords Using Naturally Occurring Radon-222 and Salinity as Tracers....Pages 241-249
Mixing Induced by Internal Hydraulic Disturbances in the Vicinity of Sills....Pages 251-257
Generation of Lee Waves Over the Sill in Knight Inlet....Pages 259-269
The Hydrography of Knight Inlet, B.C. in the Light of Long’s Model of Fjord Circulation....Pages 271-276
Turbulence Measurements Through a Train of Breaking Internal Waves in Knight Inlet, B.C.....Pages 277-281
Finite Element Computation of the Barotropic Tides in Knight Inlet, British Columbia....Pages 283-289
The Distribution of Zooplankton Communities in a Glacial Run-Off Fjord and Exchanges with the Open Sea....Pages 291-297
An Unusual Polynya in an Arctic Fjord....Pages 299-304
Seasonal Observations of Low-Frequency Atmospheric Forcing in the Strait of Juan De Fuca....Pages 305-317
Vertical Structure of Fluctuating Currents in the Strait of Juan de Fuca....Pages 319-327
Physical Oceanography of the New Zealand Fjords....Pages 329-332
A Way to Measure the Residual Flow in the Lim Fjord - Denmark....Pages 333-339
Controlling Impact of Changes in Fjord Hydrology....Pages 341-346
Water Movements Traced by Metals Dissolved from Mine Tailings Deposited in a Fjord in North West Greenland....Pages 347-353
Exchange Processes Above Sill Level between Fjords and Coastal Water....Pages 355-361
Particulate Matter Exchange Processes Between the St. Lawrence Estuary and the Saguenay Fjord....Pages 363-366
Zooplankton Variability in Skjomen, Northern Norway, and Exchange with the Outer Fjord....Pages 367-370
Mean Field Distributions of a Dissolved Substance in the Vicinity of Branches in a Fjord System....Pages 371-376
Pelagic Productivity and Food Chains in Fjord Systems....Pages 377-398
How the Zooplankton Community may vary within a Single Fjord System....Pages 399-405
A Preliminary Examination of Zooplankton Species Groupings and Associated Oceanographically Defined Regions along the British Columbia Mainland Coast....Pages 407-413
Gadoid Populations of Western Scottish Sea Lochs and Their Exchanges with West Coast Stocks....Pages 415-421
Phytoplankton Biology of Saanich Inlet, B.C.....Pages 423-427
Echo - Sounding and Ecology....Pages 429-434
Variability in Sea-Loch Phytoplankton....Pages 435-438
Amino Acid Fluxes in Marine Plankton Communities Contained in Cepex Bags....Pages 439-445
Biochemical Components as Indicators of Seasonal Condition of Deep-Water Zooplankton....Pages 447-451
Deep Water Renewal in Fjords....Pages 453-489
The Tidal Jet in Rupert-Holberg Inlet....Pages 491-497
Effect of Oxygen Deficiency on Benthic Macrofauna in Fjords....Pages 499-514
Benthic Biology of a Dissolved Oxygen Deficiency Event in Howe Sound, B. C.....Pages 515-522
Renewal and Entrainment in Loch Eil; A Periodically Ventilated Scottish Fjord....Pages 523-530
Deep Water Renewals in the Frierfjord - An Intermittently Anoxic Basin....Pages 531-537
A Radiotracer Study of Water Renewal and Sedimentation in a Scottish Fjord....Pages 539-544
Description of Water Renewal Processes in the Gros Mecatina Estuary....Pages 545-547
Characteristics of Flow Over a Sill During Deep Water Renewal....Pages 549-556
The Meiobenthos of Fjords: A Review and Prospectus....Pages 557-568
Macrobenthos of Fjords....Pages 569-602
The Effect of Sedimentation on Rocky Bottom Organisms in Balsfjord, Northern Norway....Pages 603-607
Suprabenthic Gammaridean Amphipoda (Crustacea) in the Plankton of the Sacuenay Fjord, Quebec....Pages 609-613
Flocculation, Agglomeration, and Zooplankton Pelletization of Suspended Sediment in a Fjord Receiving Glacial Meltwater....Pages 615-623
Depositional Processes in an Anoxic, High Sedimentation Regime in the Saguenay Fjord....Pages 625-631
Observations of the Sedimentary Environments of Fjords on Cumberland Peninsula, Baffin Island....Pages 633-638
Volume of Water Pumped and Particulate Matter Deposited by the Iceland Scallop ( Chlamys Islandica ) in Balsfjord, Northern Norway....Pages 639-644
Sediment Surface Reactions in Fjord Basins....Pages 645-657
Redox Dependant Processes in the Transition from Oxic to Anoxic Conditions: An in Situ Study Concerning Remineralization, Nutrient Release and Heavy Metal Solubilization....Pages 659-665
Reaction and Flux of Manganese within the Oxic Sediment and Basin Water of an Alaskan Fjord....Pages 667-673
Sediment-Seawater Exchanges of Nutrients and Transition Metals in an Alaskan Fjord....Pages 675-680
Redox Species in a Reducing Fjord: The Oxidation Rate of Manganese II....Pages 681-687
Cr Species in Saanich and Jervis Inlets....Pages 689-692
The Chemistry of Suspended Particulate Matter from Two Oxygen Deficient Norwegian Fjords - with Special Reference to Manganese....Pages 693-697
Fluorescence Measurements of Humic Substances and Lignin Sulfonates in a Fjord System....Pages 699-701
Back Matter....Pages 703-715