Estuaries
Estuaries
This volume outlines practical formulae and new hypotheses for the dynamics, sediment regimes and morphological evolution in estuaries. Enabling readers to compare different estuaries, and develop monitoring and modeling strategies for short and long-term management issues, it is a valuable reference for students of physical oceanography and estuary engineering, and professional researchers.
- Summarises the core theory underlying the physical development of estuaries - from the classical theories of the 1960s to newer research models
- Considers strategies for the sustainable exploitation of estuaries
- Looks at how estuaries may adapt to global climate change
- Compares and contrasts different estuaries around the world
Reviews & endorsements
"The book's title accurately represents its content: a wealth of information on tidal and residual circulation in estuaries, mixing processes between riverine discharge and oceanic water, and how these dynamics affect sediment balance and shale estuarine morphology. ... the author's distinctive style of distilling complicated dynamics into simple analytical expressions and governing parameters with a wide range of applicability will find many enthusiastic readers and followers in the years to come." Oceanography
Product details
February 2009Hardback
9780521888868
248 pages
254 × 179 × 17 mm
0.63kg
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Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Tidal dynamics
- 3. Currents
- 4. Saline intrusion
- 5. Sediment regimes
- 6. Synchronous estuaries: dynamics, saline intrusion and bathymetry
- 7. Synchronous estuaries: sediment trapping and sorting, stable morphology
- 8. Strategies for global climate change
- Bibliography
- Index.
