Measuring suspended sediment and its wave and turbulence forcing in the Dee estuaryCoastal areas support many human activities and represent a very important habitat for many marine and bird species. The Dee estuary, located in the eastern Irish Sea, is 20 km long, 8 km wide at the mouth ...
Dee estuaryTidal asymmetrySediment transportHydrodynamicsHypsometryAsymmetry in the tide (unequal ebb and flood duration) is a dominant factor in causing residual sediment transport and morphological changes in estuaries. The evolution of estuarine morphology is a process of dynamic equilibrium in the short...