INLETS/ESTUARIES DISCHARGING INTO SHELTERED WATERS
No. 17 (1980), Conference Proceedings
No. 17 (1980)

INLETS/ESTUARIES DISCHARGING INTO SHELTERED WATERS

Conference Proceedings
https://doi.org/10.9753/icce.v17.151
Published 1980-01-29
H.P. Riedel
Riedel S Byrne Consulting Engineers Pty. Ltd.
M.R. Gourlay
University of Queensland
PDF

Keywords

sheltered water
inlet
estuary
discharge
tidal prism

How to Cite

Riedel, H., & Gourlay, M. (1980). INLETS/ESTUARIES DISCHARGING INTO SHELTERED WATERS. Coastal Engineering Proceedings, 1(17), 151. https://doi.org/10.9753/icce.v17.151
ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver

Download Citation

Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX

Abstract

Tidal prism - cross sectional area relationships and tidal velocities have been measured for inlet entrances and along the length of the estuary for four creeks entering the sheltered waters on the South East Queensland coast, Australia. It has been found that the inlet entrance tidal prism - cross-sectional area relationship is controlled by the magnitude of littoral drift. The tidal prism - cross-sectional area relationship along the estuary is believed to be common to all tidal estuaries landward of the region where littoral drift has an influence. For tidal inlets on sheltered coasts with tidal prisms of the order of 10 n~, the mean maximum velocity entrance is about 0.3 to 0.4 m/s.
https://doi.org/10.9753/icce.v17.151
PDF
Authors retain copyright and grant the Proceedings right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this Proceedings.