Three-Dimensional Models of Marine and Estuarine Dynamics (eBook)

Front Cover 1
Three-Dimensional Models of Marine and Estuarine Dynamics 4
Copyright Page 5
Contents 8
Foreword 6
List of Participants 12
CHAPTER 1. PERSPECTIVE IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELLING OF THE MARINE SYSTEM 14
CHAPTER 2. ON MODELING THREE-DIMENSIONAL ESTUARINE AND MARINE HYDRODYNAMICS 48
CHAPTER 3. CIRCULATION MODELLING USING ORTHOGONAL CURVILINEAR COORDINATES 68
CHAPTER 4. PREDICTING OPEN OCEAN CURRENTS, FRONTS AND EDDIES 102
CHAPTER 5. PREPARATION OF ESTUARY AND MARINE MODEL EQUATIONS BY GENERALIZED FILTERING METHODS 126
CHAPTER 6. A LIMITED AREA MODEL FOR THE GULF STREAM REGION 140
CHAPTER 7. STUDY OF TRANSPORT FLUCTUATIONS AND MEANDERING OF THE FLORIDA CURRENT USING AN ISOPYCNIC COORDINATE NUMERICAL MODEL 162
CHAPTER 8. DYNAMICS OF AGULHAS RETROFLECTION AND RING FORMATION IN A QUASI- ISOPYCNIC COORDINATE NUMERICAL MODEL 182
CHAPTER 9. MODELLING OF MESOSCALE OCEANIC INSTABILITY PROCESSES 208
CHAPTER 10. AN EDDY-RESOLVING MODEL FOR RIVER PLUME FRONTS 224
CHAPTER 11. A FINITE DIFFERENCE GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL FOR SHELF SEAS AND ITS APPLICATION TO LOW FREQUENCY VARIABILITY ON THE NORTH EUROPEAN SHELF 234
CHAPTER 12. A THREE DIMENSIONAL CIRCULATION MODEL OF THE SOUTH CHINA SEA 258
CHAPTER 13. THE INFLUENCE OF BOUNDARY CONDITIONS ON THE CIRCULATION IN THE GREENLAND-NORWEGIAN SEA. A NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION 282
CHAPTER 14. A THREE DIMENSIONAL BAROCLINIC MODEL OF THE WESTERN BALTIC 298
CHAPTER 15. A STUDY OF VARIOUS OPEN BOUNDARY CONDITIONS FOR WIND-FORCED BAROTROPIC NUMERICAL OCEAN MODELS 318
CHAPTER 16. COASTAL CURRENTS, INTERNAL WAVE COLLAPSES AND TURBULENCE IN THE STRAIT OF MESSINA ZONE 350
CHAPTER 17. A THREE-DIMENSIONAL FINITE ELEMENT MODEL FOR THE STUDY OF STEADY AND NON-STEADY NATURAL FLOWS 372
CHAPTER 18. REAL AND SPURIOUS BOUNDARY LAYER EFFECTS IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL HYDRODYNAMICAL MODELS 386
CHAPTER 19. A TROPHIC-DIFFUSION 3D MODEL OF THE VENICE LAGOON 404
CHAPTER 20. THREE DIMENSIONAL CONTINENTAL SHELF HYDRODYNAMICS MODEL INCLUDING WAVE CURRENT INTERACTION 418
CHAPTER 21. THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL OF CURRENTS IN THE BAY OF SEINE 440
CHAPTER 22. TIDAL STREAMS IN SHALLOW WATER 454
CHAPTER 23. MODELLING AND OBSERVATIONS OF THE RESIDUAL CURRENT OFF SOUTHWEST NOVA SCOTIA 468
CHAPTER 24. A THREE-DIMENSIONAL WEAKLY NONLINEAR MODEL OF TIDE-INDUCED LAGRANGIAN RESIDUAL CURRENT AND MASS-TRANSPORT, WITH AN APPLICATION TO THE BOHAI SEA 484
CHAPTER 25. THREE DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL MODEL FOR THERMAL IMPACT STUDIES 502
CHAPTER 26. ESTIMATION OF STORM-GENERATED CURRENTS 518
CHAPTER 27. A COUPLED 2-D/3-D MODELLING SYSTEM FOR COMPUTATION OF TIDAL AND WIND-INDUCED CURRENTS 552
CHAPTER 28. A HIGH RESOLUTION 3D MODEL SYSTEM FOR BAROCLINIC ESTUARINE DYNAMICS AND PASSIVE POLLUTANT DISPERSION 568
CHAPTER 29. A THREE DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL MODEL OF SEMI-DIURNAL TIDES ON THE EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL SHELF 586
CHAPTER 30. A GENERAL THREE-DIMENSIONAL EDDY-RESOLVING MODEL FOR STRATIFIED SEAS 604
CHAPTER 31. A 3-D MODEL OF THE SEVERN ESTUARY 622
CHAPTER 32. THE VARIATIONAL INVERSE METHOD REVISITED (Abstract only) 638
CHAPTER 33. THE BRANCHING OF THE GULF STREAM REVISITED USING THE VARIATIONAL INVERSE METHOD (Abstract only) 640
CHAPTER 34. ABOUT A DIAGNOSTIC ANALYSIS OF THE HISTORICAL HYDROGRAPHIC DATA IN THE TROPICAL ATLANTIC (Abstract only) 642