A nonlinear model study on the long-term behavior of shore face-connected sand ridges

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 2003, Pages

  Calvete, D ^a   de Swart, H E ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Inner shelf processes; Morphodynamics; Nonlinear modeling; Saturation processes; Sediment transport; Shoreface connected ridges

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SHELF; MORPHODYNAMICS; SAND RIDGE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SHELF DYNAMICS;

EID: 0042825238     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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