Numerical mixing, the spurious mixing primarily generated by the discretization of advection,
is often significant in estuarine and coastal models due to sharp, energetic fronts. We …

A salinity variance framework is used to study mixing in the Salish Sea, a large fjordal
estuary. Output from a realistic numerical model is used to create salinity variance budgets …

This work examines the use of discrete variance decay of tracers to estimate locally in space
and time the numerical mixing caused by different processes during a tracer transport step …

Buoyant plumes from different river mouths extensively collide and converge in coastal
areas worldwide, but these interactions and dynamics have not been extensively studied …

The Connecticut River plume interacts with the strong tidal currents of the ambient receiving
waters in eastern Long Island Sound. The plume formed during ambient flood tides is …

The impacts of spurious numerical salinity mixing M num \left(M_num\right) on the larger‐
scale flow and tracer fields are characterized using idealized simulations. The idealized …

To understand mechanisms of salt intrusion in estuaries, we develop a semi‐analytical
model, that explicitly accounts for salt transport by both exchange flow and tidal flow. This …

Vertical salinity variance (SV) budgets are derived using the isohaline Total Exchange Flow
(TEF) framework, with the advection of vertical SV quantified by the dispersion of salinity …

Mixing plays a fundamental role in maintaining the general circulation of the ocean 33 by
dissipating energy and redistributing tracers, or fluid properties used to track aspects 34 of …