U.S. East Coast estuaries and inlets analysis of physical and hydrodynamic characteristics

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• Personal Author:
  Lowery, Tony A.
• Corporate Authors:
  United States. National Ocean Service. Strategic Environmental Assessments Division. ; United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Office of Ocean Resources Coordination and Assessment
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NOS (National Ocean Service)
• 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.
• Keywords:
  Classification Cluster Analysis Estuaries Geomorphology Hydrodynamics Inlets Linear Operators Cluster Analysis Linear Operators
• Series:
  EBP technical report   no. 1
• Format:
  PDF
• Document Type:
  Technical Report
• Place as Subject:
  Atlantic Coast (U.S.)
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC0 Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:1c02e7d61eb88ce5269a9586a1618ca3d10176f78afb4f2436f384c2587e55d2
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/48673/noaa_48673_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 4.89 MB ]