Research Article
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 | | | | Stokes drift | | | | Tidal diffusion | | | | Gravitational circulation | | | | Tidal pumping | | | | Tidal shear | | | | Residual circulation | | | | Remainder terms | | | | Total transport | | | |
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