Hardisty Estuaries

Monitoring and Modeling the Physical System
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-7232-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 176 Seiten, E-Book

Estuaries are complex and fascinating natural environments, whereconstantly changing water depths generate rapidly reversingcurrents and transport vast quantities of salt, heat, and sedimenton a daily basis. Estuaries: Monitoring and Modeling the PhysicalSystem examines these processes, offering extensive informationabout the geological evolution of estuaries, and details ofbathymetry, tides, currents, salt and heat, and suspendedsediment.
By carefully building a working computer model which accuratelyemulates the complexities inherent in estuaries, students learnquickly to model the tides and currents, and then to build and testsalinity, temperature, and suspended sediment modules.
The book is supported by a supplimentary material atwww.blackwellpublishing.com/hardisty which includes:
* Excel routines for individual formulae and diagrams
* Full coding for the estuarine model
THE ANALYSIS OF TIDAL STREAM POWER - For JackHardisty's other book and the accompanying website pleaseclick here: http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-047072451X.html

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hardisty, Jack

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
Estuarine toolboxes.
Dynamic Internet references.
Part I Evolution and Monitoring.
1. Introduction to Estuarine Systems.
2. Monitoring Estuarine Systems.
Part II The Bathymetry of Estuaries.
3. Estuarine Bathymetry.
4. Modeling Bathymetry.
Part III Tides in Estuaries.
5. Estuarine Tides.
6. Modeling Tides.
Part IV Currents in Estuaries.
7. Estuarine Currents.
8. Modeling Currents.
Part V The Temperature and Salinity of Estuaries.
9. Estuarine Temperature and Salinity.
10. Modeling Temperature and Salinity.
Part VI Suspended Particulate Matter in Estuaries.
11. Estuarine Particulates.
12. Modeling Particulates.
Bibliography.
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jack Hardisty is Professor of Environmental Physics at the University of Hull with research interests in sediment flux and wave and tidal renewable energy.