Estuaries

Dynamics, Mixing, Sedimentation and Morphology

By: David Prandle

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Hardcover | 22 January 2009

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This volume provides researchers, students, practising engineers and managers access to knowledge, practical formulae and new hypotheses for the dynamics, mixing, sediment regimes and morphological evolution in estuaries. The objectives are to explain the underlying governing processes and synthesise these into descriptive formulae which can be used to guide the future development of any estuary. Each chapter focuses on different physical aspects of the estuarine system - identifying key research questions, outlining theoretical, modeling and observational approaches, and highlighting the essential quantitative results. This allows readers to compare and interpret different estuaries around the world, and develop monitoring and modeling strategies for short-term management issues and for longer-term problems, such as global climate change. The book is written for researchers and students in physical oceanography and estuarine engineering, and serves as a valuable reference and source of ideas for professional research, engineering and management communities concerned with estuaries.

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"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

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List of Symbols	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
Objectives and scope	p. 1
Challenges	p. 3
Contents	p. 5
Modelling and observations	p. 13
Summary of formulae and theoretical frameworks	p. 16
	p. 17
References	p. 21
Tidal dynamics	p. 23
Introduction	p. 23
Equations of motion	p. 24
Tidal response - localised	p. 26
Tidal response - whole estuary	p. 31
Linearisation of the quadratic friction term	p. 38
Higher harmonics and residuals	p. 40
Surge-tide interactions	p. 44
Summary of results and guidelines for application	p. 46
References	p. 48
Currents	p. 50
Introduction	p. 50
Tidal current structure - 2D (X-Z)	p. 53
Tidal current structure - 3D (X-Y-Z)	p. 59
Residual currents	p. 67
Summary of results and guidelines for application	p. 71
	p. 73
	p. 75
References	p. 76
Saline intrusion	p. 78
Introduction	p. 78
Current structure for river flow, mixed and stratified saline intrusion	p. 84
The length of saline intrusion	p. 90
Tidal straining and convective overturning	p. 96
Stratification	p. 105
Summary of results and guidelines for application	p. 108
	p. 111
References	p. 120
Sediment regimes	p. 123
Introduction	p. 123
Erosion	p. 126
Deposition	p. 129
Suspended concentrations	p. 131
SPM time series for continuous tidal cycles	p. 135
Observed and modelled SPM time series	p. 137
Summary of results and guidelines for application	p. 142
	p. 145
References	p. 149
Synchronous estuaries: dynamics, saline intrusion and bathymetry	p. 151
Introduction	p. 151
Tidal dynamics	p. 152
Saline intrusion	p. 158
Estuarine bathymetry: theory	p. 161
Estuarine bathymetry: assessment of theory against observations	p. 165
Summary of results and guidelines for application	p. 170
References	p. 173
Synchronous estuaries: sediment trapping and sorting - stable morphology	p. 175
Introduction	p. 175
Tidal dynamics, saline intrusion and river flow	p. 179
Sediment dynamics	p. 182
Analytical emulator for sediment concentrations and fluxes	p. 184
Component contributions to net sediment flux	p. 187
Import or export of sediments?	p. 193
Estuarine typologies	p. 196
Summary of results and guidelines for application	p. 199
References	p. 202
Strategies for sustainability	p. 205
Introduction	p. 205
Model study of the Mersey Estuary	p. 206
Impacts of GCC	p. 218
Strategies for modelling, observations and monitoring	p. 223
Summary of results and guidelines for application	p. 226
	p. 228
References	p. 231
Index	p. 234
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Estuaries

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