A Subtidal Box Model based on the Longitudinal Anomaly of Potential Energy for Narrow Estuaries. An Application to the Guadalquivir River Estuary (SW Spain).
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2020-03-18Referencia bibliográfica
Cobos, M., Baquerizo, A., Díez-Minguito, M., & Losada, M. A. (2020). A subtidal box model based on the longitudinal anomaly of potential energy for narrow estuaries. an application to the guadalquivir river estuary (SW Spain). Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 125, e2019JC015242. https://doi.org/10. 1029/2019JC015242
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This research was partially funded by the Campus de Excelencia Internacional del Mar (Cei-MAR) and the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Project PIRATES (CTM2017-89531-R). It was also supported by AQUACLEW. Project AQUACLEW is part of ERA4CS, an ERA- NET initiated by JPI Climate, and funded by FORMAS (SE), DLR (DE), BMWFW (AT), IFD (DK), MINECO (ES), ANR (FR) with co-funding by the European Commission.We would like to thank two anonymous reviewers for the thoughtful contribution that has signicantly improved the quality of the paper. Datasets for this research are available in http://doi.org/10.5281/ zenodo.3459610. This study is a tribute to the memory of RichardW. Garvine, whose research was the inspiration for our work.Résumé
The objective of the present study is to demonstrate the informative capacity of the
longitudinal anomaly of potential energy (LAPE) in the analysis of the magnitude and spatiotemporal
variability of estuarine processes. For this purpose, a LAPE balance equation is formulated. The LAPE
integrates and varies with the vertical and longitudinal density distribution. The formulation is applied on
a subtidal scale to each box or stretch of the Guadalquivir River estuary, a narrow, highly turbid, weakly
stratified, and strongly anthropized estuary. Data recorded by a large network of monitoring stations
in 2008 and 2009 are used to quantify advective transports as well as the transports associated with
longitudinal dispersion and vertical turbulent mixing in different hydraulic regimes. In low-river flow
conditions, (river flows Q < 40m3s−1), the magnitude of LAPE transports decreases upstream and varies
locally, depending on neap-spring tidal cycles. The direction of the net LAPE transport creates convergence
zones that are particularly consistent with maximum levels of estuarine turbidity. During high-river flows
(Q > 400m3s−1), this convergence disappears and the maximum longitudinal density gradient moves
towards the mouth. More specifically, tidal pumping -induced LAPE governs during these conditions and
manages to compensate the sum of the mean nontidal and dispersive and differential advective LAPE
transports. However, during the postriverflood period, the mechanisms controlling recovery downstream
from the mouth are the longitudinal dispersive and differential advective LAPE transports. Furthermore,
the convergence zone reappears with a longitudinal gradient of the net LAPE transport that is even greater
than in low-river flow conditions.