Mass transport mechanisms in partially stratified estuaries
- 27 June 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
- Vol. 53 (4) , 671-687
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112072000412
Abstract
A number of mechanisms which transport dissolved constituents and maintain the salt balance in estuaries are described. Although some of these have already been analysed, two which appear to be the most important in many real estuaries have received little previous attention. The Mersey Estuary is used as an example in which to estimate the amount of mass transported by each mechanism. The computations show in part how little is known and how much hypothesis is still required in spit?e of the number of previous estuarine studies; one may conclude, however, that in many real estuaries the most important mass transport mechanism is the net (non-tidal) transverse circulation, which is induced in part by the boundary geometry and in part by the longitudinal density gradient.Keywords
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