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Coastal oceanography

a ratio comparing the buoyancy input from river flow with tidal mixing energy, used to classify estuaries from well mixed to stratified.

In coastal oceanography, estuarine Richardson number refers to a ratio comparing the buoyancy input from river flow with tidal mixing energy, used to classify estuaries from well mixed to stratified. This meaning comes from Fischer (1972) in Journal of Fluid Mechanics.[1]

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References

  1. Fischer, H. (1972). Mass transport mechanisms in partially stratified estuaries. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 53(4), 671-687. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112072000412

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