Velocity variability in a cross-section of a well-mixed estuary

Authors

Björn Kjerfve, Belle W. Baruch Institute for Marine Biology and Coastal Research, Marine Science Program and Department of Geology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, 29208, U.S.A.
Jeffrey A. Proehl, Belle W. Baruch Institute for Marine Biology and Coastal Research, Marine Science Program and Department of Geology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, 29208, U.S.A.

Abstract

North Inlet, South Carolina, is a well-mixed, tidally driven, high-salinity, shallow type IA estuary consisting of winding creeks that intersect a 30 km2 Spartina alterniflora salt marsh. An intensive spring tide field sampling in a 320 m wide cross-section during three consecutive tidal cycles in November 1977 resulted in detailed information on the cross-sectional net and rootmean-square (r.m.s.) velocity distributions....

Recommended Citation

Kjerfve, Björn, and Jeffrey A. Proehl. 1979. "Velocity variability in a cross-section of a well-mixed estuary." Journal of Marine Research 37, (3). https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/journal_of_marine_research/1475