Field and model studies of the nepheloid layer in coastal waters of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia

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Brinkman, R.;Wolanski, E.;Spagnol, S.
Eric Wolanski
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Field studies were undertaken of nepheloid layer dynamics in the coastal waters of the Great Barrier Reef near Cairns during the dry season in November 2001. A nephleoid layer was formed during calm weather along the coast and was advected offshore as a bottom-tagging layer. The layer spreads offshore with the ebb tidal currents and with the sediment-induced baroclinic currents. A conceptual numerical model suggests that the nepheloid layer can be modelled as a negatively buoyant plume that is deflected longshore alternatively northward and southward by the prevailing, reversing oceanic currents.

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Shallow Flows

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978-90-5809-700-2

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Taylor & Francis

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