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IX.—Water Movements in the Tay Estuary*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2011

J. R. West
J. R. West
Affiliation:
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Dundee.
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Synopsis

The present poor understanding of the fundamental mechanisms of estuarine water movement necessitates an empirical or semi-empirical approach to the circulation problem.

The Tay estuary may be considered as a system for which the inputs consist of phenomena of marine and fluvial origin, and the output is the resultant fluid motion. The definition of the boundaries of the system and of the inputs is explained. The functional dependence of fluid motion is examined with respect to the existing knowledge of estuarine circulation and the economic and technological difficulties associated with prototype estuarine investigations. The results of these studies formed the basis for planning a field study of the Tay estuary.

Data collected during the year 1969-70 has permitted the formulation of empirical relationships between parametric forms of the input and output variables. Thus, to a first approximation, the parameters of estuarine water motion can be predicted for particular antecedent input conditions.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Section B: Biological Sciences , Volume 71 , Issue 2-4 , 1972 , pp. 115 - 129
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1972

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Footnotes

†Present Address: East of Scotland Water Board, Invergowrie, Dundee.
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This paper was assisted in publication by a grant from the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland.

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