I. Introduction. - Interdisciplinary Estuarine Research: A Challenge for the Future. - II. Residual Currents. - The Dynamics of Long-Term Mass Transport in Estuaries. - On the Lagrangian Residual Velocity and the Mass-Transport in a Multi-Frequency Oscillatory System. - Residual Circulation in Shallow Estuaries: Shear Stratification and Transport Processes. - Dynamics of Tidally Forced Basin-wide Coastal Eddies. - Three-Dimensional Modeling of the Tidally Induced Residual Circulation Off Southwest Nova Scotia. - Residual Currents in the Western Dutch Wadden Sea. - Impacts of Relative Sea-level Rise on Evolution of Shallow Estuaries. - Wind Domination of Residual Tidal Transport in a Coastal Lagoon. - III. Salt Mixing and Transport. - Salinity Stratification and Vertical Shear Transport in an Estuary. - Longitudinal Dispersion of Salt in the Volkerak Estuary. - Mixing and Trapping in Australian Tropical Coastal Waters. - Control of Estuarine Salinities by Coastal Ocean Salinity. - Mixing Processes in a Numerical Model of the Western Dutch Wadden Sea. - Numerical Simulation of Tidal Dispersion Around a Coastal Headland. - Circulation in the Salt Vedge Estuaries. - IV. Sediment Transport. - Laboratory Experiments on Sedimentation of Fine-grained Sediments: A State-of-the-Art Review in the Light of Experiments with the Delft Tidal Flume. - Estuarine Boundary Layers and Sediment Transport. - Morphological Processes in Shallow Tidal Seas. - Suspended Sediment Transport Processes in the Southern North Sea. - Some Observations on Erosion and Entrainment of Estuarine Fluid Muds. - A Plume Front in Hangzhou Bay and its Role in Suspended Sediment Transport. - Currents and Sediment Transport in the Seto Inland Sea Japan. - Simulation of Suspended Sediment Dispersion in the North Sea. - V. Field Observationsand Other Applications. - Variations in Horizontal Density Gradient Forcing at the Mouth of an Estuary. - Persistence of Residual Currents in the James River Estuary and its Implication to Mass Transport. - Measurements of Residual Currents in the Coastal Zone with the OSCR HF Radar: A Review of Results from the May 1985 Experiment. - Analyses of Flux Measurements in the River Mersey. - Dynamics of Peel-Harvey Estuary Southwest Australia. - On the Summer Circulation in New York Bight and Contiguous Estuarine Waters. - Salinity Intrusion and Residual Circulation in Delaware Bay During the Drought of 1984. - Wind and River Induced Fluctuations in a Small Shallow Tributary Estuary. - Circulation Dynamics in Mt. Hope Bay and the Lower Taunton River. - VI. Interdisciplinary Studies. - Recruitment in Estuarine Benthic Communities: The Role of Physical Processes. - A 3-D Eutrophication-diffusion Model of the Venice Lagoon: Some Applications. - List of Contributors. Language: English