Measurements of near-bed intra-wave sediment entrainment above vortex ripples

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 20, 2003, Pages

  Thorne, Peter D ^a   Davies, Alan G ^b   Williams, Jon J ^a  

^a Centre for Coastal and Marine Sciences   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SURFACE WAVES; TURBULENT FLOW; ACOUSTICS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS;

TURBULENT DIFFUSION; ACOUSTIC TECHNIQUES; ENTRAINMENT PROCESS; MEASUREMENTS OF; PHYSICAL PROCESS; SEDIMENT ENTRAINMENTS; VORTEX FORMATION; VORTEX RIPPLES;

SEDIMENTS; VORTEX FLOW;

ENTRAINMENT; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; RIPPLE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT;

EID: 1242277737     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL018427     Document Type: Article

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