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This movie is for qualitative purposes only. More precise data and animations are available by request.
Movie of Figure 3. Same calculations as in Figure 1, but using a grid with doubled horizontal resolution (Figure 2).
This movie is part of a paper entitled "Modeling Surface Trapped River
Plumes: A Sensitivity Study" by Hyatt and Signell, which can be found at
http://smig.usgs.gov/SMIG/features_0300/plumes.html