Tidal water table fluctuations in a sandy ocean beach

Water Resources Research

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 2313-2320

  Raubenheimer, B ^a,c   Guza, R T ^a   Elgar, Steve ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER; BEACH; NUMERICAL MODEL; TIDAL CYCLE; WATER TABLE;

AQUIFERS; BEACHES; DECAY (ORGANIC); SEEPAGE;

BEACH PROFILE; BOUSSINESQ EQUATIONS; DECAY RATE; FINE-GRAINED SAND; FINITE AMPLITUDE; TIDAL WATER; WATER TABLE FLUCTUATIONS; WATER TABLE LEVEL;

GROUNDWATER;

EID: 0032819378     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999WR900105     Document Type: Article

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