Relationship between beach profiles and waves at Duck, North Carolina, determined by canonical correlation analysis

Marine Geology

Volumn 163, Issue 1-4, 2000, Pages 275-288

  Larson, Magnus ^a   Capobianco, Michele ^b   Hanson, Hans ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Tecnomare SpA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Beach profile; Canonical correlation analysis, empirical orthogonal functions; Energy dissipation; Field data; Statistical models; Wave transformation

Indexed keywords

BEACH PROFILE; BREAKING WAVES; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CORRELATION; WAVE-SEAFLOOR INTERACTION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034652788     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(99)00119-X     Document Type: Article

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