The impact of coastline change and urban development on the flushing time of a coastal embayment, Kingston Harbour, Jamaica

Bulletin of Marine Science

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 291-305

  Bigg, Grant R ^a,b   Webber, Dale F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; EUTROPHICATION; FLUSHING; HARBOR; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; RESIDENCE TIME; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES; JAMAICA; KINGSTON HARBOUR;

EID: 1142269579     PISSN: 00074977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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