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Record Nr.

UNINA9910254162003321

Autore

Bruner de Miranda Luiz

Titolo

Fundamentals of Estuarine Physical Oceanography / / by Luiz Bruner de Miranda, Fernando Pinheiro Andutta, Björn Kjerfve, Belmiro Mendes de Castro Filho

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

981-10-3041-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXXII, 480 p. 138 illus., 17 illus. in color.)

Collana

Ocean Engineering & Oceanography, , 2194-6396 ; ; 8

Disciplina

551.4609

Soggetti

Coasts

Engineering geology

Engineering—Geology

Foundations

Hydraulics

Hydrology

Fluids

Oceanography

Coastal Sciences

Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics

Hydrology/Water Resources

Fluid- and Aerodynamics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction to estuarine studies -- Circulation and mixing in estuaries -- Estuarine classification -- Physical properties and estuarine experiments -- Reduction and analisis of experimental data: flux and transport of properties -- Mixing processes in estuaries: Simplified methods -- hydrodynamic formulation: Conservation equations of mass, salt and applications -- Hydrodynamic formulation: equations of motion and applications -- Circulation and mixing in steady-state models: Salt wedge type -- Circulation and mixing in steady-state models: Well-mixed estuary -- Circulation and mixing in steady-state models: Partially mixed estuaries -- Numerical hydrodynamic



modelling.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides an introduction to the complex system functions, variability and human interference in ecosystem between the continent and the ocean. It focuses on circulation, transport and mixing of estuarine and coastal water masses, which is ultimately related to an understanding of the hydrographic and hydrodynamic characteristics (salinity, temperature, density and circulation), mixing processes (advection and diffusion), transport timescales such as the residence time and the exposure time. In the area of physical oceanography, experiments using these water bodies as a natural laboratory and interpreting their circulation and mixing processes using theoretical and semi-theoretical knowledge are of fundamental importance. Small-scale physical models may also be used together with analytical and numerical models. The book highlights the fact that research and theory are interactive, and the results provide the fundamentals for the development of the estuarine research.