Open AccessMODELLING OF THE DEPOSITIONAL PATTERNS IN HANGZHOU BAY
Author(s) -
Jilan Su,
Wenjing Xu
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
proceedings of conference on coastal engineering/proceedings of ... conference on coastal engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2156-1028
pISSN - 0589-087X
DOI - 10.9753/icce.v19.146
Subject(s) - sedimentary depositional environment , estuary , bay , geology , divergence (linguistics) , environmental science , oceanography , geomorphology , structural basin , linguistics , philosophy
Prediction of depositional patterns in estuaries is one of the primary concerns to coastal engineers planning major hydraulic works. For a well-mixed estuary where suspended load is the dominant transport mode, we propose to use the divergence of the distribution of the net suspended load to predict the depositional patterns. The method is applied to Hangzhou Bay, and the results agree well qualitatively with measured results while quantitatively they are also of the right order of magnitude.