Potential impacts of sand mining offshore of Maryland and Delaware: Part 1 - Impacts on physical oceanographic processes

Journal of Coastal Research

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 44-60

  Maa, Jerome P Y ^a   Hobbs III, Carl H ^a   Kim, S C ^b   Wei, Eugene ^c  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

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

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dredging; Numerical simulation; Shoreline responses; Storm surge; Tidal current; Wave transformation

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; OFFSHORE DREDGING; SHORELINE RESPONSE; WAVE TRANSFORMATION;

DREDGING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; NUMERICAL MODEL; OFFSHORE APPLICATION; SHORELINE CHANGE; STORM SURGE; TIDAL CURRENT;

ATLANTIC COAST [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1842560602     PISSN: 07490208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2112/1551-5036(2004)20[44:piosmo]2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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