Sorted bed forms as self-organized patterns: 1. Model development

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Coco, Giovanni ^a   Murray, A Brad ^b   Green, Malcolm O ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEDFORM; CONTINENTAL SHELF; HYDRODYNAMICS; MORPHOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SELF ORGANIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION; WATER DEPTH;

EID: 34548446624     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JF000665     Document Type: Article

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