The Sensitivity of Salt Wedge Estuaries to Channel Geometry
The Sensitivity of Salt Wedge Estuaries to Channel Geometry
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Boston: American Meteorological Society
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English
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The authors develop a two-layer hydraulic model to determine the saline intrusion length in sloped and converging salt wedge estuaries. They find that the nondimensional intrusion length
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The Sensitivity of Salt Wedge Estuaries to Channel Geometry
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1790971627
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1790971627
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0022-3670
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1520-0485
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10.1175/JPO-D-14-0218.1
