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Modeling Continental Shelf Formation In The Adriatic Sea And Elsewhere, Lincoln Pratson, John Swenson
Modeling Continental Shelf Formation In The Adriatic Sea And Elsewhere, Lincoln Pratson, John Swenson
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Propagation Of Tidal Waves Up In Yangtze Estuary During The Dry Season, Sheng Lu, Chaofeng Tong, Dong-Young Lee, Jinhai Zheng, Jian Shen, Wei Zhang, Yixin Yan
Propagation Of Tidal Waves Up In Yangtze Estuary During The Dry Season, Sheng Lu, Chaofeng Tong, Dong-Young Lee, Jinhai Zheng, Jian Shen, Wei Zhang, Yixin Yan
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Tide is one of the most important hydrodynamic driving forces and has unique features in the Yangtze Estuary (YE) due to the complex geometry of third-order bifurcations and four outlets. This paper characterizes the tidal oscillations, tidal dampening, tidal asymmetry, and tidal wave propagation, which provides insights into the response of the estuary to tides during the dry season. The structural components of tidal oscillations are initially attained by tidal analysis. The increasingly richer spectrum inside the estuary shows an energy transfer corresponding to the generation and development of nonlinear overtides and compound tides. A 2-D numerical model is further …
Modeling Storm Surge And Inundation In Washington, Dc, During Hurricane Isabel And The 1936 Potomac River Great Flood, Harry V. Wang, Jon Derek Loftis, David R. Forrest, Wade Smith, Barry Stamey
Modeling Storm Surge And Inundation In Washington, Dc, During Hurricane Isabel And The 1936 Potomac River Great Flood, Harry V. Wang, Jon Derek Loftis, David R. Forrest, Wade Smith, Barry Stamey
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Abstract: Washington, DC, the capital of the U.S., is located along the Upper Tidal Potomac River, where a reliable operational model is needed for making predictions of storm surge and river-induced flooding. We set up a finite volume model using a semi-implicit, Eulerian-Lagrangian scheme on a base grid (200 m) and a special feature of sub-grids (10 m), sourced with high-resolution LiDAR data and bathymetry surveys. The model domain starts at the fall line and extends 120 km downstream to Colonial Beach, VA. The model was used to simulate storm tides during the 2003 Hurricane Isabel. The water level measuring …
Relative Importance Of Nutrient Load And Wind On Regulating Interannual Summer Hypoxia In The Chesapeake Bay, P Wang, Harry V. Wang, L Linker
Relative Importance Of Nutrient Load And Wind On Regulating Interannual Summer Hypoxia In The Chesapeake Bay, P Wang, Harry V. Wang, L Linker
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Sediment Dynamics In The Adriatic Sea Investigated With Coupled Models, Christopher R. Sherwood, Jeffrey W. Book, (...), Courtney K. Harris, Et Al
Sediment Dynamics In The Adriatic Sea Investigated With Coupled Models, Christopher R. Sherwood, Jeffrey W. Book, (...), Courtney K. Harris, Et Al
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Several large research programs focused on the Adriatic Sea in winter 2002-2003, making it an exciting place for sediment dynamics modelers (Figure 1). Investigations of atmospheric forcing and oceanic response (including wave generation and propagation, water-mass formation, stratification, and circulation), suspended material, bottom boundary layer dynamics, bottom sediment, and small-scale stratigraphy were performed by European and North American researchers participating in several projects. The goal of EuroSTRATAFORM researchers is to improve our ability to understand and simulate the physical processes that deliver sediment to the marine environment and generate stratigraphic signatures. Scientists involved in the Po and Apennine Sediment Transport …
Decline Of Yangtze River Water And Sediment Discharge: Impact From Natural And Anthropogenic Changes, S. L. Yang, K. H. Xu, J. D. Milliman, H.F. Yang, C.S. Wu
Decline Of Yangtze River Water And Sediment Discharge: Impact From Natural And Anthropogenic Changes, S. L. Yang, K. H. Xu, J. D. Milliman, H.F. Yang, C.S. Wu
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The increasing impact of both climatic change and human activities on global river systems necessitates an increasing need to identify and quantify the various drivers and their impacts on fluvial water and sediment discharge. Here we show that mean Yangtze River water discharge of the first decade after the closing of the Three Gorges Dam (TGD) (2003-2012) was 67 km(3)/yr (7%) lower than that of the previous 50 years (1950-2002), and 126 km(3)/yr less compared to the relatively wet period of pre-TGD decade (1993-2002). Most (60-70%) of the decline can be attributed to decreased precipitation, the remainder resulting from construction …