In this article, we describe the use of diagnostic timescales as simple tools for illuminating
how aquatic ecosystems work, with a focus on coastal systems such as estuaries, lagoons …

Seasonal water circulation and residence times in the large (150 km 2) and shallow (1.3 m
average dry season depth) Nokoué Lagoon (Benin) are analyzed by means of numerical …

Within the framework of tidally flushed, semi-enclosed basins with negligible freshwater
inflow, and under steady periodic flow conditions, three frequently used local transport time …

Abstract The Bohai Sea is a large, semi-enclosed bay of China with a transport timescale of
more than 1 year. Residence time (RT) is an important indicator used to determine the water …

Pollutant exposure in the urban air quality literature has been typically interpreted from data
for fixed locations, which provides an incomplete picture of exposure for pedestrians (or …

Flushing of an estuary quantifies the overall water exchange between the estuary and
coastal ocean and is crucially important for water quality as well as biological and …

The residence time measures the rate at which a pollutant escapes from a region of interest.
Previous studies of urban ventilation have estimated the mean residence time from Eulerian …

Ventilation is the primary pathway for atmosphere–ocean boundary perturbations, such as
temperature anomalies, to be relayed to the ocean interior. It is also a conduit for gas …

Water residence time, which is affected by increasing water demands and climate change,
plays a crucial role in lakes and reservoirs since it influences many natural physical and …

In this paper, we investigate the water renewal of a highly populated marina, located in the
south-west of France, and subjected to a macro-tidal regime. With the use of a 3D-numerical …