Growing Forced Bars Determine Nonideal Estuary Planform
Growing Forced Bars Determine Nonideal Estuary Planform
The planform of estuaries is often described with an ideal shape, which exponentially converges in landward direction. We show how growing topographically forced nonmigratory (i.e., anchored) bars determine the largeāscale estuary planform, which explains the deviations observed in the planform of natural estuaries filled with bars compared to the ideal ā¦