Numerical predictability experiments of cross-shore sandbar migration

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Ruessink, B G ^a   Kuriyama, Y ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b PORT AND AIRPORT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; BEACHES; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SAND;

OFFSHORE WAVE; SANDBAR MIGRATION;

SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

BATHYMETRY; BEACH; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL EVOLUTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; SANDBAR; SURF ZONE; WAVE FORCE;

EID: 41549153039     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032530     Document Type: Article

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