User Guide 020
9 List of Symbols Variable Meaning Units (SI)
Coriolis parameter 1/s
Time -averaged total water depth m
Time-averaged water surface elevation above the still water line m
Still water depth m
Source term due to precipitation, evaporation and subgrid structures m/s
Total flux velocity defined as m/a
Time- and depth-averaged current velocity vector (i.e. Eulerian velocity) m/s
Depth-averaged Stokes velocity m/s
Gravitational constant (9.806 m/s2) m/s2
Atmospheric pressure Pa
Water density (~1025 kg/m3) kg/m3
Turbulent eddy viscosity m2/s
Wind surface stress vector N/m2
Wave stress vector N/m2
Combined wave-current mean bed shear stress vector N/m2
Depth-average salinity concentration ppt
Peak bottom orbital velocity based on the significant wave height and linear wave theory m/s
Peak bottom wave orbital velocity based on the root-mean-squared wave height m/s
Air density at sea level kg/m3
Wind drag coefficient -
10-m wind speed vector m/s
10-m wind velocity magnitude m/s
Equilibrium bed load transport m2/s
Equilibrium suspended load transport m2/s
Equilibrium total load transport m2/s
median grain size m s sediment specific gravity or relative density -
Shields parameters due to currents -
Mean Shields parameters due to waves and currents -
Maximum Shields parameters due to waves and cur-rents -
Critical Shields parameter. -
Dimensionless grain size based on the median grain size -
Dimensionless grain size based on the kth size class -