Research Interests

My current research interests relate to transport processes in estuaries. They include specifically the description of time- dependent mixing processes in partially stratified estuaries, tidally induced residual currents in estuarine basins, and the interaction of buoyancy forced and tidally induced residual currents in estuaries.

I am interested in internal hydraulics, in the assimilation of data into models for estuarine circulation, and in the analysis of long-term data sets to evaluate effects of climatic variability on coastal hydrography.

Selected Publications

Wilson, R.E. and A. Valle-Levinson. 1998. Effects of rotation and mixing on volume exchange in Eastern Long Island Sound. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science (In press).

Ullman, D.S. and R.E. Wilson. 1998. Model parameter estimation from data assimilation modeling: Temporal and spatial variability of bottom drag coefficient in the Hudson estuary. Journal of Geophysical Research (In press).

Chant, B.J. and R.E. Wilson. 1997. Secondary ciruclation in a highly stratified estuary. Journal of Geophysical Research, 102:23,207-23,216.

Wilson, R.E. 1995. Contributions of inertial accelerations to the horizontal momentum balance in a ROFI (Region of Fresh Water Influence). Annales Geophysicae, Supplement to Vol 13, C267.

Valle-Levinson, A. and R.E. Wilson. 1994. Influence of sill processes and tidal forcing on exchange in eastern Long Island Sound. Journal of Geophysical Research, 99:12,667-12,681.

Valle-Levinson, A. and R.E. Wilson. 1994. Effects of barotropic forcing and vertical mixing on estuary/ocean exchange. Journal of Geophysical Research, 99:5,149-5,169.

Koutitonsky, V.G. and R.E. Wilson. 1990. Season response of the lower St. Lawrence Estuary to buoyancy forcing. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 31:359-379.