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 in estuaries, students learn quickly to model the tides and currents, and then to build and test salinity, temperature, and suspended sediment modules.
The book is supported by a supplimentary material at www.blackwellpublishing.com/hardisty which includes:
* Excel routines for individual formulae and diagrams
Jack Hardisty is Professor of Environmental Physics at the University of Hull with research interests in sediment flux and wave and tidal renewable energy.
Features
Uses the theoretical basis for a new a generic model for estuarine tides, currents, temperature, salinity and particulate matter.
Introduces the processes by carefully building a working computer model which accurately emulates the complexities, and retains the transparency, of estuaries.
Includes a comprehensive introduction to geological evolution of estuaries.
Features five main section on Bathymetry, Tides, Currents, Salt and Health and suspended sediment.
Supported by a website that includes regularly updated dynamic internet references, Excelettes for individual formulas and diagrams, and full coding for sediment modules.
