Observations and idealized models of dispersion of the southwestern Puerto Rican insular shelf

DOI10.1016/0895-7177(95)00022-TMaRDI QIDQ1804934zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors B. G. Sanderson, I. T. Webster, S. Kioroglou, R. Appeldoorn, Akira Okubo

Publication date 4 May 1995

Published in Mathematical and Computer Modelling (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0895-7177(95)00022-t

zbMATH Keywords

drifter trajectoriesdynamical forcesFickian eddy diffusionfractal dimensionmixingshallow watervariable bathymetrywavelengthwind-forced flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Diffusion (76R50) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05)

Review text

Based on observations on the insular shelf of southwestern Puerto Rico, the drifter trajectories are analyzed in order to determine the dynamical forces most important for driving flow and to quantify eddy diffusivities describing the particle dispersion. Two models are proposed: the first describes the mixing resulting from an idealized flow in three joined channels, and the second estimates dispersion resulting from wind-forced flow and shallow water over variable bathymetry, away from islands.

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