Effects of Tidal Range Variability and Local Morphology on Hydrodynamic Behavior and Salinity Structure in the Caeté River Estuary, North Brazil

Table 1

Summary of salt flux decomposition of advective transport at the lower (# LE), middle (# ME), and upper estuaries (# UE) sampling stations.

Components of advective transport	# UE salt transport; (kg m^−1 s^−1)	# ME salt transport; (kg m^−1 s^−1)	# LE salt transport; (kg m^−1 s^−1)
Fluvial discharge	0.8±0.1	6.0±0.2	22.8±2.2
Stokes drift	−0.4±0.2	4.3±0.1	−3.6±0.3
Tidal diffusion	−0.5±0.3	−9.7±0.6	1.7±0.5
Gravitational circulation	−0.01±0.0	−0.05±0.0	−0.8±0.1
Tidal pumping	0.01±0.0	0.1±0.0	−0.6±0.1
Tidal shear	0.02±0.0	0.2±0.1	0.7±0.1
Residual circulation	0.18±0.0	0.4±0.1	0.2±0.0
Remainder terms	0.0±0.0	0.0±0.0	0.0±0.0
Total transport	0.1±0.2	1.3±0.5	20.4±1.2