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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"River Plume"”.
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Lake Michigan Tributary Characteristics, Nutrient Loading Trends, and River Plume Dynamics
… by evaluating the dynamics of tributaries and river plumes. Analysis focused on answering the following questions: (1) How do hydrologic characteristics of Lake Michigan tributaries vary historically and in comparison to each other; (2) How do nutrient concentrations vary episodically and …
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The Impact of Stratified Ambient Water On Freshwater Transport In A River Plume
… the influence of stratified ambient water on river plume structure and freshwater transport in the plume. The Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS) is applied to conduct a parameter study, where the inflow freshwater flux, inflow salinity anomaly, ambient stratification and the bottom slope …
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The sediment, river plume, and inner shelf variability in a bay with multiple fluvial inputs
Small mountainous rivers deliver considerable sediment loading to the coastal ocean and play a disproportionate role in marine sediment deposition globally. Discharge in these rivers is often driven by short episodic events and they typically deliver sediment to energetic coastal environments where …
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Dynamics of freshwater plumes: observations and numerical modeling of the wind-forced response and alongshore freshwater transport
A freshwater plume often forms when a river or an estuary discharges water onto the continental shelf. Freshwater plumes are ubiquitous features of the coastal ocean and usually leave a striking signature in the coastal hydrography. The present study combines both hydrographic data and idealized …
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Dynamics of freshwater plumes : observations and numerical modeling of the wind-forced response and alongshore freshwater transport
A freshwater plume often forms when a river or an estuary discharges water onto the continental shelf. Freshwater plumes are ubiquitous features of the coastal ocean and usually leave a striking signature in the coastal hydrography. The present study combines both hydrographic data and idealized …
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The interaction of two coastal plumes and its effect on the transport of Alexandrium fundyense
… understanding of the interactions between river plumes is essential to our understanding of this problem. The rest of this thesis intends to contribute to the understanding of these plume interactions and their effect on the transport of A. fundyense. Mixing between two interacting river …
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Nearshore sediment dynamics in a mixed sand/mud environment
… quantities of fine, fluvial sediment from two river systems. Examining seabed geomechanical characteristics, sediment fluxes and morphological features in northern Poverty Bay provided the opportunity to study interactive processes, including sediment entrainment rates over the cohesively bound …
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Concentrations, Distributions and Chemical Speciation of Zinc and Cadmium in the Equatorial and South Atlantic Ocean
… exerted on surface waters near the Amazon River plume and on subsurface waters by a hypoxic region in the Equatorial Atlantic.</p> <p>As of water masses of more widespread distribution, the influence of factors like the Amazon River particles/Equatorial area high productivity on …
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Sensor data analytics and web applications to improve monitoring and understanding of lake processes
… from an undulating vehicle deployed at three rivermouth sites in Lake Michigan during 2011. The normalized root-mean-square error (NRMSE) of the interpolation averages approximately 10% in 3-fold cross validation. The results show that the framework can be used to track river plume dynamics …
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Vertical Transport of Sediment from Muddy Buoyant River Plumes in the Presence of Different Modes of Interfacial Instabilities
… deposition processes from sediment laden buoyant river plumes in deltaic regions. The goal is to experimentally examine the effects of various physical phenomena influencing the rate at which sediment is removed from the plume. Previous laboratory and field measurements have suggested that, at …
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Estimating the water quality condition of river and lake water in the Midwestern United States from its spectral characteristics
… for water quality retrieval in Midwestern rivers and lakes. In the first part of this study, the spectral measurements collected using a hand-held spectrometer as well as water quality observations for the Wabash River and its tributary the Tippecanoe River in Indiana were used to develop …