Abstract: Subtidal adjustment of estuarine salinity and circulation to changing river flow or tidal mixing is explored using a simplified numerical model. The model employs tidally averaged, width-averaged physics, following Hansen ...

Abstract: method for calculating subtidal estuarine exchange flow using an isohaline framework is described, and the results are compared with those of the more commonly used Eulerian method of salt flux decomposition. Concepts are ...

Abstract: The adjustment of estuarine circulation and density to changes in river flow and tidal mixing is investigated using analytical and numerical models. Tidally averaged momentum and salinity equations in a rectangular estuary ...

Abstract: Lee wave generation and horizontal flow separation in stratified flow along a slope, with corrugations or a ridge running directly downslope, are explored using analytical and numerical methods. Both of these processes are ...

Abstract: The turbulent bottom boundary layer for rotating, stratified flow along a slope is explored through theory and numerical simulation. The model flow begins with a uniform current along constant-depth contours and with flat ...

Abstract: The structure of baroclinic vortices generated by horizontal flow separation past a sloping headland in deep, stably stratified waters is investigated. The most distinctive feature of these eddies is that their cores are ...

Abstract: method is presented for calculating a complete, numerically closed, mechanical energy budget in a realistic simulation of circulation in a coastal?estuarine domain. The budget is formulated in terms of the ?local? available ...

Abstract: Experiments are performed using a two-layer isopycnic numerical model in a zonal channel with a large meridional topographic ridge in the lower layer. The model is forced only by a steady meridional volume transport in the ...

Abstract: The outer Strait of Juan de Fuca is a stratified, tidal channel about 100 km long, 20 km wide, and 200 m deep. Tidal currents of O(0.5 m s?1) occur at both diurnal and semidiurnal periods and there is a pronounced spring?neap ...