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    Stress, salt flux, and dynamics of a partially mixed estuary

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    Date
    1998-08
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    Fredericks, Janet J.  Concept link
    Trowbridge, John H.  Concept link
    Geyer, W. Rockwell  Concept link
    Williams, Albert J.  Concept link
    Bowen, Melissa M.  Concept link
    Woodruff, Jonathan D.  Concept link
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    https://hdl.handle.net/1912/325
    Location
    Hudson River, NY
    DOI
    10.1575/1912/325
    Keyword
     Stress; Salt flux; Mixed estuary 
    Abstract
    A field study was performed in the lower Hudson River, a partially mixed estuary with a relatively simple geometry (Figure 1), between August and October of 1995. The objectives of the study were (1) to quantify and characterize the turbulent transport of momentum and salt, and (2) to relate the turbulent transport processes to the local and estuary-wide dynamics. The measurement program consisted of fixed and shipboard components. At a central site, a moored array of temperature-conductivity sensors and optical backscatter sensors (OBS), a bottom-mounted acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP), and a bottom-mounted array of acoustic travel-time current sensors (BASS), temperature-conductivity sensors, and OBS sensors resolved the vertical structure of velocity, salinity and turbidity and the near-bottom turbulence structure. Moored and bottom-mounted velocity, temperature, conductivity and pressure sensors at five secondary sites quantified the spatial and temporal variabilty of velocity, salinity and bottom pressure. Shipboard measurements with an ADCP and a conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) profiler, accompanied by an OBS sensor, resolved the spatial structure and tidal variability of velocity, salinity and turbidity along several cross-channel and along-channel transects. This report describes the measurements in detail. Section II describes the instrumentation, Section III describes the deployment and sampling schemes, Section IV describes the data processing, and Section V is a summary of plots of selected data. Section VI documents the data files and Sections VII and VII give acknowledgments and references.
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    Fredericks, J. J., Trowbridge, J. H., Geyer, W. R., Williams, A. J., Bowen, M., & Woodruff, J. (1998). Stress, salt flux, and dynamics of a partially mixed estuary. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. https://doi.org/10.1575/1912/325
     

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