Wind impact on pollutant transport in a shallow estuary

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摘要 Athree-dimensionalnumericalmodel,EFDC(environmentalfluiddynamicscode)isappliedtothePamlicoRiverEstuary(PRE)ineasternNorthCarolinaoftheUnitedStatestoexaminethewindimpactonpollutantagedistributionsandresidencetime.Aseriesofmodelexperimentsrepresentingbasecase,remote-wind-inducedwaterlevelset-upandlocalwindscasesareconducted.ModelresultsindicatethatthepollutantmeanageandthesystemresidencetimearefunctionsofgravitationalcirculationinthePRE.Thesystemresponsestoremote-wind-inducedwaterlevelset-uparedifferentindifferentportionsofthePRE.Undersuchcondition,dissolvedsubstancesintheupstreamportionofthePREhaveayoungerageandshorterresidencetime(comparedwiththebasecase),bycontrast,theyhaveaolderageandlongerresidencetimeinthedownstreamportionofthePRE.Upriveranddownriverlocalwindsappeartohaveoppositeimpactsonpollutantagedistributions.ThesubstancesareretainedmuchlongerwithinthePREunderupriverwindthanthoseunderdownriverwind.Themodelresultsalsosuggestthatacross-riverwindsmayleadtolongerresidencetimethroughenhancedturbulencemixing,whichslowsdownthegravitationalcirculationinthePRE.
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出处 《海洋学报:英文版》 2008年3期
出版日期 2008年03月13日(中国期刊网平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)
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