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San Francisco Bay is the largest and most productive estuary on the Pacific Coast of North America. It is also home to the oldest and densest urban settlements in the American West. Focusing on human inhabitation of the Bay since Ohlone times, Down by the Bay reveals the ongoing role of nature in shaping that history. From birds to oyster pirates, from gold miners to farmers, from salt ponds to ports, this is the first history of the San Francisco Bay and Delta as both a human and natural landscape. It offers invaluable context for current discussions over the best management and use of the Bay in the face of sea level rise.

Land use --- Nature --- Human ecology --- Ecology --- Environment, Human --- Human beings --- Human environment --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Land --- Land utilization --- Use of land --- Utilization of land --- Economics --- Land cover --- Landscape assessment --- NIMBY syndrome --- History. --- Effect of human beings on --- Social aspects --- Effect of environment on --- San Francisco (Calif.) --- San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) --- Bay Area, San Francisco (Calif.) --- San Francisco Bay Region (Calif.) --- San Francisco Region (Calif.) --- San Francisco County (Calif.) --- San Francisco --- San Francisco City & County (Calif.) --- San Francisco City and County (Calif.) --- City & County of San Francisco (Calif.) --- City and County of San Francisco (Calif.) --- Saint Francisco (Calif.) --- Yerba Buena (Calif.) --- Environmental conditions. --- american west. --- bayshore. --- california ecology. --- california environment. --- california history. --- cities and environment. --- climate change. --- conservation and development. --- ecological historians. --- ecology and climate change. --- environment conservation. --- environmental history. --- environmental protection. --- environmentalism. --- global warming. --- going green. --- history of san francisco. --- nature conservation. --- pacific coast. --- san francisco estuary. --- san francisco tidelands. --- urban development and environment. --- us history. --- westward expansion.

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Geophysical, environmental, and urban fluid flows (i.e., flows developing in oceans, seas, estuaries, rivers, aquifers, reservoirs, etc.) exhibit a wide range of reactive and transport processes. Therefore, identifying key phenomena, understanding their relative importance, and establishing causal relationships between them is no trivial task. Analysis of primitive variables (e.g., velocity components, pressure, temperature, concentration) is not always conducive to the most fruitful interpretations. Examining auxiliary variables introduced for diagnostic purposes is an option worth considering. In this respect, tracer and timescale methods are proving to be very effective. Such methods can help address questions such as, "where does a fluid-born dissolved or particulate substance come from and where will it go?" or, "how fast are the transport and reaction phenomena controlling the appearance and disappearance such substances?" These issues have been dealt with since the 19th century, essentially by means of ad hoc approaches. However, over the past three decades, methods resting on solid theoretical foundations have been developed, which permit the evaluation of tracer concentrations and diagnostic timescales (age, residence/exposure time, etc.) across space and time and using numerical models and field data. This book comprises research and review articles, introducing state-of-the-art diagnostic theories and their applications to domains ranging from shallow human-made reservoirs to lakes, river networks, marine domains, and subsurface flows

residence time --- Three Gorges Reservoir --- tributary bay --- density current --- water level regulation --- marina --- water renewal --- transport timescales --- return-flow --- macro-tidal --- wind influence --- floating structures --- San Francisco Estuary --- Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta --- water age --- transport time scales --- hydrodynamic model --- tidal hydrodynamics --- stable isotopes --- reactive tracers --- tailor-made tracer design --- hydrogeological tracer test --- kinetics --- partitioning --- Mahakam Delta --- age --- exposure time --- return coefficient --- CART --- source water fingerprinting --- floodplain --- turbulence --- ADCP measurement --- wave bias --- Reynolds stress --- transport process --- passive tracers --- terrestrial dissolved substances --- Pearl River Estuary --- shallow lake --- meteorological influence --- sub-basins --- Delft3D --- partial differential equations --- boundary conditions --- geophysical and environmental fluid flows --- reactive transport --- interpretation methods --- diagnostic timescales --- age distribution function --- radionuclide --- tracer --- data collection --- antimony 125 (125Sb) --- tritium (3H) --- dispersion --- modeling --- English Channel --- North Sea --- Biscay Bay --- timescale --- transport --- hydrodynamic --- ecological --- biogeochemical --- coastal --- estuary --- flushing time --- shallow reservoir --- numerical modeling --- Lagrangian transport modelling --- coupled wave–ocean models --- ocean drifters --- wave-induced processes --- model skills --- n/a --- Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta --- coupled wave-ocean models

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Geophysical, environmental, and urban fluid flows (i.e., flows developing in oceans, seas, estuaries, rivers, aquifers, reservoirs, etc.) exhibit a wide range of reactive and transport processes. Therefore, identifying key phenomena, understanding their relative importance, and establishing causal relationships between them is no trivial task. Analysis of primitive variables (e.g., velocity components, pressure, temperature, concentration) is not always conducive to the most fruitful interpretations. Examining auxiliary variables introduced for diagnostic purposes is an option worth considering. In this respect, tracer and timescale methods are proving to be very effective. Such methods can help address questions such as, "where does a fluid-born dissolved or particulate substance come from and where will it go?" or, "how fast are the transport and reaction phenomena controlling the appearance and disappearance such substances?" These issues have been dealt with since the 19th century, essentially by means of ad hoc approaches. However, over the past three decades, methods resting on solid theoretical foundations have been developed, which permit the evaluation of tracer concentrations and diagnostic timescales (age, residence/exposure time, etc.) across space and time and using numerical models and field data. This book comprises research and review articles, introducing state-of-the-art diagnostic theories and their applications to domains ranging from shallow human-made reservoirs to lakes, river networks, marine domains, and subsurface flows

Research & information: general --- Biology, life sciences --- residence time --- Three Gorges Reservoir --- tributary bay --- density current --- water level regulation --- marina --- water renewal --- transport timescales --- return-flow --- macro-tidal --- wind influence --- floating structures --- San Francisco Estuary --- Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta --- water age --- transport time scales --- hydrodynamic model --- tidal hydrodynamics --- stable isotopes --- reactive tracers --- tailor-made tracer design --- hydrogeological tracer test --- kinetics --- partitioning --- Mahakam Delta --- age --- exposure time --- return coefficient --- CART --- source water fingerprinting --- floodplain --- turbulence --- ADCP measurement --- wave bias --- Reynolds stress --- transport process --- passive tracers --- terrestrial dissolved substances --- Pearl River Estuary --- shallow lake --- meteorological influence --- sub-basins --- Delft3D --- partial differential equations --- boundary conditions --- geophysical and environmental fluid flows --- reactive transport --- interpretation methods --- diagnostic timescales --- age distribution function --- radionuclide --- tracer --- data collection --- antimony 125 (125Sb) --- tritium (3H) --- dispersion --- modeling --- English Channel --- North Sea --- Biscay Bay --- timescale --- transport --- hydrodynamic --- ecological --- biogeochemical --- coastal --- estuary --- flushing time --- shallow reservoir --- numerical modeling --- Lagrangian transport modelling --- coupled wave–ocean models --- ocean drifters --- wave-induced processes --- model skills --- n/a --- Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta --- coupled wave-ocean models