Description: This map from the U. S. Geological Survey Water Resources Investigation Report number 93-4153, Simulation of Tidal Flow, Circulation, and Flushing of the Charlotte Harbor Esturine System, shows an example of particle movements within Charlotte Harbor using the Lagrangian approach. The Lagrangian approach tracks a fluid particle as the water velocity moves it through the estuary, and is based upon a reference frame that moves at the same rate as the water velocity. Lagrangian particle tracks represent the transport process of advection, or transport by the water velocity, but do not represent the transport process of dispersion. The thin line represents the continuous particle track during the simulation, the symbol indicates the position of the particle at high tide, and the thick line is the track of the particle considering only high tide positions. Page 24-25.
Source: Carl R. Goodwin, USGS Water Resources Investigations Report 93-4153 (Tallahassee, FL: U. S. Geological Survey, 1996) 76
Map Credit: Courtesy the University of South Florida Library |
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