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CONTINENTAL SHELF RESEARCH
Volume 147, Issue -, Pages 114-127Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2017.06.002
Keywords
Mangroves; Turbulence; Tidal dynamics; Waves; Sediment transport; Vietnam
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- Office of Naval Research Global Grant [ONR N62909-14-1-N028]
- Office of Naval Research Grant [N00014-14-10112]
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This paper examines the role of mangrove pneumatophore roots as a spatial control over the turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) dissipation rate within a natural mangrove forest. Measurements of turbulence at millimeter scales were compared with vegetation geometries reconstructed using a novel photogrammetric technique. These small-scale relationships were then averaged to show larger-scale patterns in turbulence across the mudflat and mangrove fringe-forest transition. Although turbulence estimates varied with across-shore position, TKE dissipation was always elevated in the fringe relative to mudflat and forest interior sample sites. The largest dissipation rates (4.5 x 10(-3) W kg(-1)) were measured as breaking waves propagated over canopies in very shallow water. Dissipation was reduced, but often remained intense (10-3-10-4 W kg(-1)) under non breaking waves at the fringe, likely indicating turbulent generation in pneumatophore wakes. Pneumatophore density was positively correlated with the spatial distribution of TKE dissipation. Turbulence was also correlated positively with wave height and negatively with water depth. Fringe sediments were more sandy and less muddy than sediments onshore and offshore, suggesting that the intense turbulence may lead to winnowing of fine-grained sediments at the fringe.
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