Estuarine and Wetland Processes

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Turbulent Processes in Estuaries

   • George B. Gardner, Arthur R. M. Nowell, J. Dungan Smith

   Pages 1-34

3. Observation and Modeling of the Circulation in the Chesapeake Bay

   • Dong-Ping Wang

   Pages 35-48

4. The Transport of Freshwater Off a Multi-Inlet Coastline

   • J. O. Blanton

   Pages 49-64

5. Box Models Revisited

   • Charles B. Officer

   Pages 65-114

6. Numerical Hydrodynamics of Estuaries

   • John Eric Edinger, Edward M. Buchak

   Pages 115-146

7. Evolution of a Numerical Model for Simulating Long-Period Wave Behavior in Ocean-Estuarine Systems

   • H. Lee Butler

   Pages 147-182

8. Hydrography and Circulation Processes of Gulf Estuaries

   • George H. Ward

   Pages 183-215

9. Predicting the Effects of Storm Surges and Abnormal River Flow on Flooding and Water Movement in Mobile Bay, Alabama

   • Gary C. April, Donald C. Raney

   Pages 217-245

10. Hydrodynamic-Mass Transfer Model of Deltaic Systems

    • L. M. Hauck, G. H. Ward

    Pages 247-268

11. Current Measurements and Mathematical Modeling in Southern Puget Sound

    • Philip J. W. Roberts

    Pages 269-284

12. The Role of Physical Modeling in the Mathematical Modeling of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta

    • Richard C. Kristof

    Pages 285-297

13. Modeling Sediment Transport in a Shallow Lake

    • Y. Peter Sheng

    Pages 299-337

14. A Numerical Simulation of the Dispersion of Sediments Suspended by Estuarine Dredging Operations

    • Donald F. Cundy, W. F. Bohlen

    Pages 339-353

15. Short-Term Fluxes Through Major Outlets of the North Inlet Marsh in Terms of Adenosine 5′-Triphosphate

    • L. Harold Stevenson, Thomas H. Chrzanowski, Bjorn Kjerfve

    Pages 355-369

16. Sources and Variability of Suspended Particulates and Organic Carbon in a Salt Marsh Estuary

    • Robert C. Harriss, Benny W. Ribelin, C. Dreyer

    Pages 371-384

17. Tidal Wetlands and Estuarine Coliform Bacteria

    • Paul Jensen, Andrew Rola, John Tyrawski

    Pages 385-399

18. Rate of Sedimentation and Its Role in Nutrient Cycling in a Louisiana Salt Marsh

    • R. D. DeLaune, W. H. Patrick Jr.

    Pages 401-412

19. An Infiltrometer to Measure Seepage in Salt Marsh Soils

    • Roger Burke, Harry Hemond, Keith Stolzenbach

    Pages 413-423

20. Quantitative Assessment of Emergent Spartina Alterniflora Biomass in Tidal Wetlands Using Remote Sensing

    • David S. Bartlett, Vytautas Klemas

    Pages 425-436

Estuaries and Wetlands are important coastal resources which are subject to a great deal of environmental stress. Dredging, construction, creation of intertidal wetlands, regulation of fresh­ water flow, and pollution are just a few of the activities which affect these coastal systems. The need to predict the effects of these perturbations upon ecosystem dynamics, particularly estuarine fisheries, as well as on physical effects, such as sedimentation and salt intrusion, is of paramount importance. Prediction requires the use of models, but no model is likely to be satisfactory unless fundamental physical, chemical, sedimentological, and biological processes are quantitatively understood, and the appropriate time and space scales known. With these considerations in mind, the Environmental Laboratory, U. S. Army Engineer Haterways Experiment Station,* Vicksburg, Mississippi, sponsored a workshop on "Estuarine and Wetland Processes and Water Quality Modeling" held in New Orleans, June 1979. The contents of this volume have been selected from the workshop papers. The resulting book, perhaps more than any other symposium proceed­ ings on estuaries and wetlands, attempts to review important pro­ cesses and place them in a modeling context. There is also a distinct applied tinge to a number of the contributions since some of the research studies were motivated by environmental assessments. The difference in title between this volume and the workshop re­ flects more accurately the contents of the published papers.

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