Millennial to annual volume changes in the Humber Estuary

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 463, Issue 2079, 2007, Pages 837-854

  Townend, I H ^a   Wang, Z B ^b   Rees, J G ^c  

^a HR WALLINGFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b WL DELFT HYDRAULICS   (Netherlands)

^c BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Estuary; Long term change; Morphology; Nodal tidal cycle; Sea level rise

Indexed keywords

EID: 36348954503     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2006.1798     Document Type: Article

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