Estuaries : monitoring and modeling the physical system /

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...

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Main Author: Hardisty, J. (Jack), 1955-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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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 to estuaries, students learn quickly to model the.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 157 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-154) and index.
ISBN:9780470750889
047075088X
9781405172325
1405172320
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9781280748868
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6610748861