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Articles | Volume 21, issue 1
Articles | Volume 21, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-19-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-19-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 21, issue 1
Research article
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13 Jan 2025
Research article |  | 13 Jan 2025

Disentangling spring–neap suspended particulate matter (SPM) dynamics in estuaries

Yoeri M. Dijkstra, Dennis D. Bouwman, and Henk M. Schuttelaars

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Suspended particulate matter (SPM) concentrations in estuaries have been observed to vary strongly over the spring–neap cycle. A systematic framework for analysing the processes causing this SPM variability is missing. In this study we set up such a framework. It is demonstrated using two model cases: an idealised test case and one representative of the Loire estuary. Using this, we explain the locations and timing of maximum concentrations in terms of the governing physical mechanisms.
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