Predicted changes in tidal circulation due to construction of containment islands in the Lower Bay of New York Harbor
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Authors
Marine Sciences Research Center
Vieira, Mário E. C.
Issue Date
1986
Type
Language
en_US
Keywords
Marine Sciences. , Atmospheric Sciences. , Tidal currents -- Lower Bay (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Simulation methods. , Dredging spoil -- Environmental aspects -- Lower Bay (N.Y. and N.J.)
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Abstract
from the abstract, "The effects of constructing 500 acre islands at three predetermined
sites within the Lower Bay of New York Harbor were evaluated with a vertically integrated, non-linear, finite difference numerical model. The simulations were carried out for islands of circular and elliptical shape, and the tidal circulation patterns and surface water elevation changes compared with presently existing conditions. Results suggest that the differences in tidal elevation and tidal currents will be very small, mostly limited to the immediate vicinity of those islands, and negligible in relation to the non-tidal fluctuations induced by meteorological and density forcing."
Description
iv, 54 leaves : ill. ; 28 cm. Includes bibliographical references (leaf 54).
Citation
Vieira, Mário E. C. Predicted changes in tidal circulation due to construction of containment islands in the Lower Bay of New York Harbor / Mário E.C. Vieira. Stony Brook, N.Y. : Marine Sciences Research Center, State University of New York, [1986]
Publisher
Marine Sciences Research Center, Stony Brook University
License
Stony Brook University