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ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE
Volume 63, Issue 1-2, Pages 225-233Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2004.11.017
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fluid mud; hurricane waves; wave dissipation; resuspension; settling velocity
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Measurements of wave and suspended sediment concentration (SSC) were conducted near the 5-m isobath on the muddy inner shelf fronting Atchafalaya Bay, Louisiana, during Hurricane Claudette. The data show that wave and current activity resuspended large quantities of sediment, with SSC >= 0.5 kg/m(3) throughout the water column. In the waning phase of the storm, settling generated a suspension layer, with concentrations over 1.7 kg/m(3) measured as high as 1 m above the bottom. Numerical simulations of post-storm sediment settling showed that observations are consistent with a high-density fluid mud layer (SSC between 10 and 20 kg/m(3)), and separated from the upper water column by a lutocline located at about I m above the bottom. The formation of the fluid-mud layer is correlated with strong, broad-spectrum wave dissipation, consistent with the hypothesis that surface-interface wave interaction plays an important part in the energy transfer from the surface to the soft bottom. (c) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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