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U.S. East Coast estuaries and inlets analysis of physical and hydrodynamic characteristics
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1995
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Series: EBP technical report ; no. 1
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Description:Traditionally, estuarine characterizations are based on geomorphology or hydrodynamic regimes. Drowned river valley, coastal plain, riverine, lagoon, fjord, etc., describe geomorphology. Likewise, salt-wedge, highly stratified, moderately stratified, vertically homogeneous, etc., describe hydrodynamics. However, the influence of tides, freshwater input, and mixing energetics on estuarine water masses complicates the use of hybrid geomorphologic/hydrodynamic characterizations of estuaries. In the past, this complexity thwarted development of a unified geomorphologic/hydrodynamic characterization of U.S. East Coast estuaries.
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Rights Information:CC0 Public Domain
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