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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 tides and currents, and then to build and test salinity, temperature, and suspended sediment modules.

Índice: Preface. 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. References. Index.