Abstract: A set of field experiments was conducted to determine the water-following characteristics of mixed-layer drifters with ?holey-sock? drogues. Through the use of a drifting current meter array, direct estimates of slip ...

Abstract: ata from the Hudson River estuary demonstrate that the tidal variations in vertical salinity stratification are not consistent with the patterns associated with along-channel tidal straining. These observations result from ...

Abstract: Shear instability is found to be the principal mechanism of vertical exchange within the pycnocline of a salt wedge estuary. A field program involving high-resolution velocity and density measurements, as well as high-frequency ...

Abstract: The alongshore transport of a surface-trapped river plume is studied using a three-dimensional model. Model simulations exhibit the previously observed rightward veering (in the Northern Hemisphere) of the freshwater and ...

Abstract: Classic models of estuarine circulation are reexamined using a three-dimensional, primitive equation numerical ocean model. The model is configured using an idealized estuary/shelf domain with rectangular cross section, ...

Abstract: The time variations of the salt wedge intrusion in the Fraser estuary, British Columbia, were monitored during a variety of tidal and run-off conditions using instruments and sampling methods that provided high resolution ...

Abstract: Observations at the mouth of the Fraser River (British Columbia, Canada) indicate an abrupt frontal transition between unstratified river outflow and a highly stratified river plume with differences in salinity greater ...

Abstract: A tidally and cross-sectionally averaged model based on the temporal evolution of the quasi-steady Hansen and Rattray equations is applied to simulate the salinity distribution and vertical exchange flow along the Hudson ...

Abstract: The temporal response of the length of a partially mixed estuary to changes in freshwater discharge Qf and tidal amplitude UT is studied using a 108-day time series collected along the length of the Hudson River estuary ...