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CONTEMPORARY ISSUES
IN ESTUARINE PHYSICS
Estuaries are areas of high socioeconomic importance, with 22 of the 32 largest
cities in the world being located on river estuaries. Estuaries bring together fluxes of
fresh and saline water, as well as fluvial and marine sediments, and contain many
biological niches and high biological diversity. Increasing sophistication of field
observation technology and numerical modeling have led to significant advances in
our understanding of the physics of these systems over the last decade.
This book introduces a classification for estuaries before presenting the basic
physics and hydrodynamics of estuarine circulation and the various factors that
modify it in time and space. It then covers special topics at the forefront of research,
such as turbulence, fronts in estuaries and continental shelves, low inflow estuaries,
and implications of estuarine transport for water quality.
With contributions from some of the world’s leading authorities on estuarine and
lagoon hydrodynamics, this volume provides a concise foundation for academic
researchers, advanced students and coastal resource managers.
Arnoldo Valle-Levinson received a PhD from the State University of New York at
Stony Brook in 1992 before going on to work at Old Dominion University (Norfolk,
VA). He joined the University of Florida (Gainsville, FL) in 2005, where he is now a
Professor in the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering. His research focuses
on bathymetric effects on the hydrodynamics of estuaries, fjords and coastal
lagoons. Professor Valle-Levinson is the recipient of a CAREER award from the
US National Science Foundation, a Fulbright Fellowship for research in Chile, and a
Gledden Fellowship from the University of Western Australia. He has worked
extensively in several Latin-American countries, where he also teaches courses on
estuarine and coastal hydrodynamics. He is also an associate editor for t