Introduction to estuarine hydrodynamics
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Introduction to estuarine hydrodynamics
Cambridge University Press, 2022
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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This textbook provides an in-depth overview of the hydrodynamics of estuaries and semi-enclosed bodies of water. It begins by describing the typical classification of estuaries, followed by a presentation of the quantitative tools needed to study these basins: conservation of mass, salt, heat, momentum, and the thermodynamic equation of seawater. Further topics explore tides in homogeneous basins, including shallow water tides and tidal residual flows, wind-driven flows in homogeneous basins, density-driven flows, as well as interactions among tides, winds and density gradients. The book proposes a classification of semi-enclosed basins that is based on dominant dynamics, comparing forcing agents and restorative or balancing forces. Introduction to Estuarine Hydrodynamics provides an introduction for advanced students and researchers across a range of disciplines - Earth science, environmental science, biology, chemistry, geology, hydrology, physics - related to the study of estuarine systems.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction and classification
- 2. Conservation equations
- 3. Tides in semienclosed basins
- 4. Shallow water tides
- 5. Tidal residual flows in homogeneous, semienclosed basins
- 6. Wind-driven flows in homogeneous, semienclosed basins
- 7. Flows driven by density gradients
- 8. Interactions among tides, density radients and wind
- 9. Fronts
- 10. Time scales in semienclosed basins
- 11. Semienclosed basins with low or no discharge
- 12. Classification of semienclosed basins, based on dynamics. Index.
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