Estuaries: Monitoring and Modeling the Physical System

by Jack Hardisty (University of Hull)

• ISBN13: 9781405172325
• ISBN10: 1405172320
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-04-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Estuaries are complex and fascinating natural environments, where constantly changing water depths generate rapidly reversing currents and transport vast quantities of salt, heat, and sediment on a daily basis. Estuaries: Monitoring and Modeling the Physical System examines these processes, offering extensive information about the geological evolution of estuaries, and details of bathymetry, tides, currents, salt and heat, and suspended sediment. By carefully building a working computer model which accurately emulates the complexities inherent in estuaries, students learn quickly to model the tides and currents, and then to build and test salinity, temperature, and suspended sediment modules. The book is strongly supported by a website at www.blackwellpublishing.com/hardisty which includes: * Regularly updated Dynamic Internet References * Excel routines for individual formulae and diagrams * Full coding for the estuarine model

Table of Contents

Preface

Estuarine toolboxes

Dynamic Internet references

Evolution and Monitoring

Introduction to Estuarine Systems

Monitoring Estuarine Systems

The Bathymetry of Estuaries

Estuarine Bathymetry

Modeling Bathymetry

Tides in Estuaries

Estuarine Tides

Modeling Tides

Currents in Estuaries

Estuarine Currents

Modeling Currents

The Temperature and Salinity of Estuaries

Estuarine Temperature and Salinity

Modeling Temperature and Salinity

Suspended Particulate Matter in Estuaries

Estuarine Particulates

Modeling Particulates

Bibliography

Index

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