Research Catalog

Title

Physical oceanography of estuaries (and associated coastal waters) / Charles B. Officer.

Author

Officer, Charles B.

Publication

New York : Wiley, ©1976.

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Details

Description

xii, 465 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Estuarine oceanography
• Coasts
• Océanographie
• Estuaires
• Eaux côtières
• Physique
• Coasts
• Estuarine oceanography
• Küstenmeer
• Meereskunde
• Mündung

Note

• "A Wiley-Interscience publication."
• Includes indexes.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 441-454.

Contents

• HYDRODYNAMICS: Hydrodynamic preliminaries -- Equations of motion -- Equations of continuity -- Continuity, mixing, and diffusion -- Turbulence and diffusion -- Diffusion scale effects -- Forces -- Turbulence and internal friction -- Boundary layer and bottom friction -- Scaling and integrated equations -- Hydraulics of open channel flow -- Hydrodynamic numbers and coefficients -- TIDAL PHENOMENA: Tidal waves -- Tidal cooscillation -- Tidal waves with friction -- Tidal energies and energy losses -- Bores -- CIRCULATION: Controls, transitions, and jumps -- Fjord type entrainment flow -- Arrested salt wedge flow -- Stratified flow in straits -- Horizontal density gradient flow -- Two dimensional density gradient flow -- Tidal motion and near bottom effects -- Fronts -- Transverse effects -- Some lateral effects on circulation -- MIXING: Simplified mixing concepts -- Overmixing -- Entrainment mixing -- Longitudinal dispersion across a vertical section -- Horizontal, one dimensional tidal mixing -- Vertical velocity shear, circulation, and mixing effects -- Lateral velocity shear, circulation, and mixing effects -- Diffusion induced circulation -- Vertical stability and vertical mixing -- Seasonal thermocline and heat effects -- POLLUTANT DISPERSION: Longitudinal conservative dispersion -- Longitudinal nonconservative dispersion -- Vertical dispersion effects -- Geometry and source considerations -- Velocity shear and point source dispersion -- Coupled nonconservative systems --
• GREAT BRITAIN: Mersey estuary and Liverpool bay -- Severn estuary and Bristol channel -- Southampton estuary and the Solent -- Thames estuary -- Tay estuary -- Red wharf bay, Anglesey -- Irish sea -- EUROPE: Hardangerfjord and Nordfjord -- Frierfjord and Oslofjord -- Randers fjord and Schultz's grund -- Elbe and Ems estuaries -- Bosporus, Dardanelles, Gibraltar, and Bab el Mandeb -- European coastal waters -- AMERICAS, EAST COAST: St. John estuary -- Miramichi, Penobscot, and Kennebec estuaries -- Connecticut and Merrimack rivers -- Hudson river and associated waters -- Raritan estuary -- Delaware estuary -- Chesapeake bay and associated waters -- James estuary -- Savannah and Charleston harbors -- Florida peninsula waters -- Mississippi river -- Galveston bay -- Amazon river -- Bay of Fundy -- Long Island sound -- AMERICAS, WEST COAST: Alaska inlets -- British Columbia inlets -- Vancouver island inlets -- Alberni inlet -- Duwamish and Snohomish rivers -- Columbia river estuary -- Grays harbor and Yaquina estuaries -- San Francisco bay and associated waters -- Inlets of Chile -- Straits of Juan de Fuca and Georgia -- ASIA, AUSTRALIA, AND JAPAN: Vellar estuary -- Hooghly estuary -- Chao Phya estuary -- Australian estuaries -- Rivers of Japan -- Osaka and Ariake bays.

ISBN

• 0471652784
• 9780471652786

LCCN

75045330

OCLC

• ocm01991288
• 1991288
• SCSB-286312

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library