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Latest revision as of 20:28, 8 May 2015

9 List of Symbols

Variable Meaning Units(SI)
Coriolis parameter 1/s
h 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
g Gravitational constant (9.806 m/s2) m/s2
Atmospheric pressure Pa
Water density (~1025 )
Turbulent eddy viscosity
Wind surface stress vector
Wave stress vector
Combined wave-current mean bed shear stress vector
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
Wind drag coefficient -
10-m wind speed vector m/s
W 10-m wind velocity magnitude m/s
Equilibrium bed load transport
Equilibrium suspended load transport
Equilibrium total load transport
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 currents -
Critical Shields parameter -
Dimensionless grain size based on the median grain size -
Dimensionless grain size based on the kth size class -