Onshore migration of a swash bar during a storm

Journal of Coastal Research

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-14

  Houser, Chris ^a,b   Greenwood, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydrodynamics; Suspended sediment transport; Swash bar morphodynamics; Velocity and acceleration skewness

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MORPHODYNAMICS; SANDBAR; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SKEWNESS; STORM; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TIDAL CYCLE; WATER DEPTH; WATER LEVEL; WAVE BREAKING; WAVE RUNUP; WAVE VELOCITY;

DENMARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; RIBE; SCANDINAVIA; SKALLINGEN PENINSULA;

EID: 33847062132     PISSN: 07490208     EISSN: 15515036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2112/03-0135.1     Document Type: Article

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