A new parameterisation of salinity advection to prevent stratification from running away in a simple estuarine model
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1 Université catholique de Louvain, Unité de Génie Civil et Environnemental, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium 2 Université catholique de Louvain, Centre for Systems Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium Received: 21 April 2008 – Accepted: 23 April 2008 – Published: 2 June 2008 Correspondence to: S. Blaise ([email protected]) Published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union.
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