An investigation of the multi-scale temporal variability of beach profiles at Duck using wavelet packet transforms

Coastal Engineering

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 401-415

  Reeve, Dominic ^a   Li, Ying ^a   Lark, Murray ^b   Simmonds, Dave ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beach profile change; Discrete wavelet packet transform; Multi scale variability; Non stationary

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; DYNAMICS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

BEACH PROFILE CHANGE; DISCRETE WAVELET PACKET TRANSFORM; MORPHODYNAMIC MODELLING; MULTI-SCALE TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; SHORELINE;

BEACHES;

BEACHES; COASTAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; DYNAMICS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

BEACH PROFILE; SHORELINE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

DUCK; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34247246402     PISSN: 03783839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2006.11.008     Document Type: Article

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