Large-scale laboratory measurements of longshore sediment transport under spilling and plunging breakers

Journal of Coastal Research

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 118-135

  Wang, Ping ^a   Smith, Ernest R ^a   Ebersole, Bruce A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Longshore sediment transport; Nearshore sediment transport; Physical modeling; Sediment transport processes; Surf zone processes; Wave breaking

Indexed keywords

LABORATORY METHOD; LONGSHORE TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SURF ZONE; WAVE BREAKING;

EID: 0036188608     PISSN: 07490208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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