Exploration of numerical results

Objective:

To characterize the switching of residual flow drivers.

 

Expected results

• Longitudinal sections of residual flow and salinity over the thalweg and along the adjacent shoals.
• Transverse structure of residual flow and salinity fields along the estuary.
• Transverse flow index to characterize the residual flow structure (see below).
• Comparison of the ratio of tidal stress terms vs baroclinic pressure gradient term of the momentum equation with Fr0.

Along-estuary density gradients and hydrodynamic switching.

• Relation between the process-oriented experiments (simplified geometry) with the actual physical processes acting at the Guadiana estuary (simulations with real geometry).