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MerMADE: Merrimack River Mixing and Divergence Experiment

Mt. Hope Bay and Brayton Point Power Station

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MerMADE: Merrimack River Mixing and Divergence Experiment

Spreading, entrainment, and water mass modification in near-field river plumes.

PI: Dan MacDonald, SMAST, UMass Dartmouth
Co-PI: Rob Hetland, Texas A&M University

• Background of Near Field Plumes


• Field work & the 2006 Merrimack Flood

Papers:

• MacDonald, D.G., L. Goodman and R.D. Hetland, 2007. Turbulent dissipation in a near filed plume: A comparison of control volume and microstructure observations with a numerical model. J. Geophys. Res., in press.


• Hetland, R.D. and D.G. MacDonald. Spreading in the Merrimack River Plume. Ocean Modeling, in press.