The role of tides in beach cusp development

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 2004, Pages

  Coco, Giovanni ^a   Burnet, Tom K ^a   Werner, B T ^a   Elgar, Steve ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Beach cusp; Erosion; Exfiltration; Infiltration; Tides

Indexed keywords

BEACH CUSP; BEACH MORPHOLOGY; COASTAL EROSION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TIDAL CYCLE;

EID: 3042830824     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003JC002154     Document Type: Article

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