The Relative Importance of Wind Straining and Gravitational Forcing in Driving Exchange Flows in Tidally Energetic Estuaries

Author:

Lange Xaver1,Burchard Hans1

Affiliation:

1. Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde, Rostock, Germany

Abstract

AbstractIn straight tidal estuaries, residual overturning circulation results mainly from a competition between gravitational forcing, wind forcing, and friction. To systematically investigate this for tidally energetic estuaries, the dynamics of estuarine cross sections is analyzed in terms of the relation between gravitational forcing, wind stress, and the strength of estuarine circulation. A system-dependent basic Wedderburn number is defined as the ratio between wind forcing and opposing gravitational forcing at which the estuarine circulation changes sign. An analytical steady-state solution for gravitationally and wind-driven exchange flow is constructed, where tidal mixing is parameterized by parabolic eddy viscosity. For this simple but fundamental situation, is calculated, meaning that the up-estuary wind forcing needs to be 15% of the gravitational forcing to invert estuarine circulation. In three steps, relevant physical processes are added to this basic state: (i) tidal dynamics are resolved by a prescribed semidiurnal tide, leading to caused by tidal straining; (ii) lateral circulation is added by introducing cross-channel bathymetry, smoothly increasing from 0.47 (flat bed) to 1.3 (parabolic bed) due to an increasing effect of lateral circulation on estuarine circulation; and (iii) full dynamics of a real tidally energetic inlet with highly variable forcing, where results from a two-dimensional linear regression.

Funder

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Publisher

American Meteorological Society

Subject

Oceanography

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