This picture shows a tracer-study plume conducted at the mouth of a river entering into an estuary. One can clearly see the fine-scale structure of the plume interacting with ambient turbulence and the slow nature of lateral spreading.
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Hubert Chanson, Civil Engineering, The University of Queensland, Australia
This web site was launched by Prof. Michele Mossa of the Polytechnic University of Bari (Italy) with the initial support of Fondazione Caripuglia, Bari, Italy for the Research Project LIC-MON of 2003 and of the Project IMCA (Integrated Monitoring of Coastal Areas) financed by MIUR PON D.M. 593/00. Later, the initiative was supported with other Prof. Michele Mossa’s funds, most recently provided by the RITMARE Project.
Mixing processes in environmental fluid mechanics
