Fundamentals of Estuarine Physical Oceanography

Fernando Pinheiro Andutta is Research Fellow at the Griffith Climate Change Response Program GCCRP at Griffith University, Southport, AustraliaBjörn Kjerfve is Chancellor of the American University of Sharjah, UAELuiz Bruner de Miranda is an emeritus professor at the University of São Paulo, BrazilAnd Belmiro Mendes de Castro Filho is a professor at the University of São Paulo, Brazil

• Introduction to estuarine studies.- Circulation and mixing in estuaries.- Estuarine classification.- Physical properties and estuarine experiments.- Reduction and analisis of experimental data: flux and transport of properties.- Mixing processes in estuaries: Simplified methods.- hydrodynamic formulation: Conservation equations of mass, salt and applications.- Hydrodynamic formulation: equations of motion and applications.- Circulation and mixing in steady-state models: Salt wedge type.- Circulation and mixing in steady-state models: Well-mixed estuary.- Circulation and mixing in steady-state models: Partially mixed estuaries.- Numerical hydrodynamic modelling.