Residual Currents and Long-term Transport

Front Matter....Pages I-XI
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-6
Interdisciplinary Estuarine Research: A Challenge for the Future....Pages 7-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
The Dynamics of Long-Term Mass Transport in Estuaries....Pages 17-33
On the Lagrangian Residual Velocity and the Mass-Transport in a Multi-Frequency Oscillatory System....Pages 34-48
Residual Circulation in Shallow Estuaries: Shear, Stratification and Transport Processes....Pages 49-63
Dynamics of Tidally Forced Basin-wide Coastal Eddies....Pages 64-78
Three-Dimensional Modeling of the Tidally Induced Residual Circulation off Southwest Nova Scotia....Pages 79-92
Residual Currents in the Western Dutch Wadden Sea....Pages 93-104
Impacts of Relative Sea-level Rise on Evolution of Shallow Estuaries....Pages 105-122
Wind Domination of Residual Tidal Transport in a Coastal Lagoon....Pages 123-133
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Salinity Stratification and Vertical Shear Transport in an Estuary....Pages 137-150
Longitudinal Dispersion of Salt in the Volkerak Estuary....Pages 151-164
Mixing and Trapping in Australian Tropical Coastal Waters....Pages 165-183
Control of Estuarine Salinities by Coastal Ocean Salinity....Pages 184-193
Mixing Processes in a Numerical Model of the Western Dutch Wadden Sea....Pages 194-209
Numerical Simulation of Tidal Dispersion Around a Coastal Headland....Pages 210-222
Circulation in the Salt Wedge Estuary....Pages 223-237
Front Matter....Pages 239-239
Laboratory Experiments on Sedimentation of Fine-grained Sediments: A State-of-the-Art Review in the Light of Experiments with the Delft Tidal Flume....Pages 241-259
Estuarine Boundary Layers and Sediment Transport....Pages 260-275
Morphological Processes in Shallow Tidal Seas....Pages 276-301
Front Matter....Pages 239-239
Suspended Sediment Transport Processes in the Southern North Sea....Pages 302-320
Some Observations on Erosion and Entrainment of Estuarine Fluid Muds....Pages 321-332
A Plume Front in Hangzhou Bay and its Role in Suspended Sediment Transport....Pages 333-347
Currents and Sediment Transport in the Seto Inland Sea, Japan....Pages 348-355
Simulation of Suspended Sediment Dispersion in the North Sea....Pages 356-372
Front Matter....Pages 373-373
Variations in Horizontal Density Gradient Forcing at the Mouth of an Estuary....Pages 375-388
Persistence of Residual Currents in the James River Estuary and its Implication to Mass Transport....Pages 389-401
Measurements of Residual Currents in the Coastal Zone with the OSCR HF Radar: A Review of Results From the May 1985 Experiment....Pages 402-412
Analyses of Flux Measurements in the River Mersey....Pages 413-430
Dynamics of Peel-Harvey Estuary, Southwest Australia....Pages 431-450
On the Summer Circulation in New York Bight and Contiguous Estuarine Waters....Pages 451-468
Salinity Intrusion and Residual Circulation in Delaware Bay During the Drought of 1984....Pages 469-480
Wind and River Induced Fluctuations in a Small, Shallow, Tributary Estuary....Pages 481-493
Circulation Dynamics in Mt. Hope Bay and the Lower Taunton River....Pages 494-510
Front Matter....Pages 511-511
Recruitment in Estuarine Benthic Communities: The Role of Physical Processes....Pages 513-525
A 3-D Eutrophication-diffusion Model of the Venice Lagoon: Some Applications....Pages 526-538
Back Matter....Pages 539-547