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GEOPHYSICAL HYDRAULICS

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.

© Scott Socolofsky and Gerhard H. Jirka

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