Fig. 3
From: Relating estuarine turbidity maxima to tide and river conditions
Parameter space for estuarine turbidity maximum. (a-b) Highest quartile (75th percentile) of in-situ surface SPM concentration SPMCs and (c-d) estuarine trapping efficiency SPMCs/SPMCref, based on the relative tidal amplitude a0/hm and simplified freshwater Froude number Frs, m. (a, c) Scatter plot of tide-averaged data for the seven main estuaries with the main occurrence area (coloured contours), and (b, d) interpolated data with black isolines. In panel (b), open circles represent in-situ observations for the test estuaries using values defined in Table 1: ‘C’ Charente, ‘V’ Vilaine, ‘H’ Hudson, ‘L19’ Loire in 1900, and ‘L20’ Loire in 2000.
