Influence of "defects" on sorted bedform dynamics

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Huntley, David A ^a   Coco, Giovanni ^b   Bryan, Karin R ^c   Murray, A Brad ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF WATER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RIVERS;

BEDFORMS; WAVE FORCING;

SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

BEDFORM; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEAFLOOR; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SUBAERIAL EXPOSURE; WAVE FORCE;

EID: 40849142307     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030512     Document Type: Article

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