Mechanisms of Tidal Dispersion in a Salt Marsh Estuary

Dispersion in estuaries sets the length of salinity intrusion and the horizontal mixing rate of waterborne constituents, including larvae, nutrients, sediments, and contaminants. While bulk calculations of dispersion are readily estimated using traditional field measurements, the mechanisms contribu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Garcia, Adrian Mikhail Palaci
Other Authors: Geyer, W. Rockwell
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2023
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/147458
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1536-1429