A new shape function for bar-type beach profiles

Journal of Coastal Research

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 728-736

  Hsu, Tai Wen ^a   Tseng, I Fan ^a   Lee, Chung Pan ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Continuous equation; Nonlinear regression analysis; Storm beach profiles

Indexed keywords

BEACH; LABORATORY METHOD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 33646723547     PISSN: 07490208     EISSN: 15515036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2112/04-0340.1     Document Type: Article

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