Water Exchange of Nontidal Estuarine Coastal Vistula Lagoon with the Baltic Sea
Publication: Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering
Volume 147, Issue 4
Abstract
The objective of the study is to present the main morphometric features of the inner sand bar of the nontidal Vistula Lagoon, to obtain actual data on the water exchange of the lagoon with the Baltic Sea, to compare the time variability of water exchange and regime-forming factors, and to estimate the volume of water exchange. The erosion was revealed for the inner sandy bar (comparing 2012 and 2019) which could be caused by regular dredging of the navigable canal (uptake the marine sediments feeding the bar). A sea-level rise of different origins guides impulse-fold inflow–outflow exchange of the lagoon with the sea estimated by direct current measurements in winter and spring. An inflow–outflow event is sustainable when the water level rises higher than 0.8 cm/h. Spring river input provides the shift in the equilibrium in water exchange toward outflow (by 10% in duration). The average rate of the inflow–outflow is 3.14 and 3.16; the maximum is 8.00 and 8.31 million m3 per hour. The average volumes per inflow–outflow events are 37 and 31 million m3. A simplified formula for calculating the exchange volume based on sea-level changes was recommended using a high correlation between them.
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Acknowledgments
The measurements were made within RFBR project number 18-05-01145; data processing and analysis was conducted within the RFBR project number 19-35-90069 (R. Zakirov), and the topic No 0149-2019-0013 of the State Assignment of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of Russian Academy of Sciences (B. Chubarenko). Tilting bottom current meters were developed and provided by scientific group of Prof. V. Paka of Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of Russian Academy of Sciences. Authors thank two anonymous reviewers whose friendly and constructive remarks let them improve the paper.
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Received: Sep 2, 2020
Accepted: Dec 14, 2020
Published online: Mar 18, 2021
Published in print: Jul 1, 2021
Discussion open until: Aug 18, 2021
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