High-angle wave instability and emergent shoreline shapes: 2. Wave climate analysis and comparisons to nature

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Ashton, Andrew D ^a,b   Murray, A Brad ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL EVOLUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SAND WAVE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SHORELINE CHANGE; SPIT;

GREAT LAKES; LAKE ERIE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34147151919     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JF000423     Document Type: Article

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