edu.ucar.opensky::articles:24851 UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact 2025-12-24T23:01:14.105455 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7qc070b Development of a physically based sediment transport model for Green Bay, Lake Michigan 2021-10-18T00:00:00Z publication https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7qc070b https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JC017518 Khazaei, Bahram author Bravo, H. R. author Anderson, E. J. author Klump, J. V. author UCAR/NCAR - Library publisher Green Bay is the largest freshwater estuarine system on earth, drains one-third of the Lake Michigan basin and delivers one-third of the lake's phosphorus load. Southern Green Bay is a designated area of concern due to ecosystem degradation that includes eutrophication, harmful algal blooms, hypoxia, lost or altered habitat, and reduced water quality. While marine estuaries are subject to tidal influence and saltwater intrusion, this freshwater estuary is subject to lake intrusion of freshwater with different quality parameters. Understanding the simultaneous effects of tributary flows and lake intrusions is crucial to comprehend the dynamics of freshwater estuaries. A single hydrodynamic, wind-wave, and sediment transport model was developed for the lake and its estuary. This approach provides fine resolution in the estuary and simulates directly the combined effects of tributary flows and lake intrusions. The approach overcomes open-boundary limitations of nested models, and of whole-lake models that lack sufficient resolution or wind-wave and sediment transport simulation. The model confirms findings of previous studies and demonstrates how the circulation, thermal regime, wave action, and sediment transport in the estuary depend on meteorological forcing, tributary flows, and lake intrusions. The stage is set to apply this approach to study biogeochemical processes in lakes and estuaries. UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact PDF Text theme Resource Type 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z publication Copyright 2021 American Geophysical Union. None eng geoscientificInformation