Numerical issues of the Total Exchange Flow (TEF) analysis framework for quantifying estuarine circulation

Lorenz, Marvin; Klingbeil, Knut; MacCready, Parker; Burchard, Hans

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/os-15-601-2019

Articles | Volume 15, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/os-15-601-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/os-15-601-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 3

Research article

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29 May 2019

Research article |

| 29 May 2019

Numerical issues of the Total Exchange Flow (TEF) analysis framework for quantifying estuarine circulation

Marvin Lorenz, Knut Klingbeil, Parker MacCready, and Hans Burchard

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RC1: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 04 Mar 2019
- AC1: 'AC_for_RC1', Marvin Lorenz, 23 Apr 2019
RC2: 'Referee report', Anonymous Referee #2, 08 Mar 2019
- AC2: 'AC_for_RC2', Marvin Lorenz, 23 Apr 2019

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AR by Marvin Lorenz on behalf of the Authors (06 May 2019)

Short summary

Estuaries are areas where riverine and oceanic waters meet and mix. The exchange flow of an estuary describes the water properties of the inflowing and outflowing water. These can be described by simple bulk values for volume fluxes and salinities. This work focuses on the numerics of one computational method for these values, the Total Exchange Flow. We show that only the so-called dividing salinity method is able to reliably calculate the correct values, even for complex situations.