Temporal and spatial variations of surf-zone currents and suspended sediment concentration

Coastal Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 175-211

  Wang, Ping ^a   Ebersole, Bruce A ^b   Smith, Ernest R ^b   Johnson, Bradley D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b US ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross shore sediment transport; Longshore sediment transport; Physical modeling; Sediment flux; Sediment suspension; Surf zone hydrodynamics; Surf zone sediment transport

Indexed keywords

BEACHES; FREQUENCIES; SAND; SEDIMENTS;

SPATIAL VARIATION;

COASTAL ENGINEERING;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); LONGSHORE CURRENT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURF ZONE; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; WAVE BREAKING;

EID: 0036693829     PISSN: 03783839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3839(02)00091-1     Document Type: Article

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