Building the Turbidity Maximum in the Hudson River Estuary
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Marine Sciences Research Center, Stony Brook University
Keywords
Marine Sciences.,Atmospheric Sciences.,Northern European coast.,Hudson River Estuary.,Turbidity maxima.,Estuarine Circulation.,Halocline.
Abstract
from the introduction, ". . .In this paper, we will discuss the turbidity structures in the Hudson River estuary and propose a new mechanism for the genesis of turbidity maxima. It appears that one turbidity maximum in the Hudson River estuary is caused by tidally
modulated and bathyrnetrically controlled incursion of salt-water fronts. A second maximum appears at the head of salt."