1. Edition - January 2007
61.90 Euro
2007. 176 Pages, Hardcover
ISBN-10: 1-4051-4642-7
ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-4642-5 - John Wiley & Sons








Detailed description
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 strongly supported by a website at www.blackwellpublishing.com/hardisty which includes:

* Regularly updated Dynamic Internet References

* Excel routines for individual formulae and diagrams

* Full coding for the estuarine model

THE ANALYSIS OF TIDAL STREAM POWER - For Jack Hardisty's new book and the accompanying website please click here: http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-047072451X.html

From the contents
Part I Evolution and Monitoring.

Part II The Bathymetry of Estuaries.

Part III Tides in Estuaries.

Part IV Currents in Estuaries.

Part V The Temperature and Salinity of Estuaries.

Part VI Suspended Particulate Matter in Estuaries