Monitoring and modelling groundwater behaviour in sandy beaches

Journal of Coastal Research

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 630-640

  Baird, Andrew J ^a   Horn, Diane P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

beach groundwater; field monitoring; numerical modelling; swash zone sediment transport

Indexed keywords

BEACHES; GROUNDWATER;

BEACH HYDRODYNAMICS; BEACHES; GROUNDWATER PROCESSES; SANDY BEACH; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SWASH/BACKWASH HYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 0029663211     PISSN: 07490208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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