Beach face and berm morphodynamics fronting a coastal lagoon

Geomorphology

Volumn 82, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 331-346

  Weir, Felicia M ^a   Hughes, Michael G ^a   Baldock, Tom E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Berm; Intermittently closed and open lagoon (ICOL); Morphodynamics; Sediment transport shape function; Swash; Wave runup

Indexed keywords

BACKFILL; BEACH; BERM; COASTAL LAGOON; MORPHODYNAMICS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TIDAL CYCLE; WAVE RUNUP;

EID: 33751307430     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2006.05.015     Document Type: Article

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