Three-dimensional Lagrangian Tracer Modelling in Wadden Sea ...

List of Figures
2.1.1 Scheme of the time stepping used by the General Estuarine
Transport Model (GETM). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
2.1.2 Layout of the horizontal and vertical model grid used by the
General Estuarine Transport Model (GETM). . . . . . . . . 13
2.2.1 Scheme of the one-dimensional molecular diffusion. . . . . . 14
2.2.2 Differential control volume CV for derivation of the diffusion
equation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
2.2.3 Differential control volume CV for derivation of the advectiondiffusion
equation with cross flow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
2.4.1 Scheme of the interpolation procedure for the particle velocity. 24
3.1.1 Velocity field for the two-dimensional advection case. . . . . 39
3.1.2 Particle trajectories computed from the analytical and the
Runge-Kutta algorithm for two different time steps. . . . . . 39
3.2.1 Vertical profiles of the turbulent kinetic energy, the energy
dissipation rate, the zonal velocity component, the eddy diffusivity
and eddy viscosity for the Rouse test case. . . . . . 45
3.2.2 Sediment profiles computed by three different models. . . . 46
3.3.1 Sea surface elevation, circulation pattern and vertical profiles
of the eddy viscosity and the eddy diffusivity. . . . . . . . . 48
3.3.2 Particle paths due to wind driven lake circulation. . . . . . . 49
4.1.1 The North Sea and the German Bight . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
4.1.2 Satellite image of the East Frisian Wadden Sea between Norderney
and Spiekeroog. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
4.1.3 Topographic map of the model domain between the islands
Baltrum and Langeoog. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
4.1.4 Time series of the sea surface data used to force the model
on the open boundaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
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