| Abstract: | Availability of extensive field data permitted realistic calibration and validation of a hydrodynamic model of tidal circulation and salt transport for Suisun Bay, California. Suisun Bay is a partially mixed embayment of northern San Francisco Bay located just seaward of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The model employs a variant of an alternating direction implicit finite-difference method to solve the hydrodynamic equations and an Eulerian-Lagrangian method to solve the salt transport equation. An upwind formulation of the advective acceleration terms of the momentum equations was employed to avoid oscillations in the tidally averaged velocity field produced by central spatial differencing of these terms. Simulation results of tidal circulation and salt transport demonstrate that tides and the complex bathymetry determine the patterns of tidal velocities and that net changes in the salinity distribution over a few tidal cycles are small despite large changes during each cycle. |
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| Citation Author: | Smith, Lawrence, H.; Cheng, Ralph, T. |
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| Citation Larger Work Title: | Water Resources Research |
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| Citation Search Results Text: | TIDAL AND TIDALLY AVERAGED CIRCULATION CHARACTERISTICS OF SUISUN BAY, CALIFORNIA.; 1987; Article; Journal; Water Resources Research; Smith, Lawrence, H.; Cheng, Ralph, T. |
| Citation Start Page: | 143 |
| Citation Volume: | 23 |
| Citation Year: | 1987 |
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| Text: | TIDAL AND TIDALLY AVERAGED CIRCULATION CHARACTERISTICS OF SUISUN BAY, CALIFORNIA.; 1987; Article; Journal; Water Resources Research; Smith, Lawrence, H.; Cheng, Ralph, T. |
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| Date Other: | Thu, 1 Jan 1987 00:00 -0600 |
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