Infragravity wave contribution to surf zone sediment transport - The role of advection

Marine Geology

Volumn 251, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 1-14

  Aagaard, Troels ^a   Greenwood, Brian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

crescentic bars; edge waves; morphodynamics; sediment transport; suspended sediment

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WAVE EFFECTS;

CRESCENTIC BARS; EDGE WAVES; INFRAGRAVITY WAVE MOTIONS; MORPHODYNAMICS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SWELL WAVES;

SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

ADVECTION; EDGE WAVE; FIELD METHOD; GRAVITY WAVE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MORPHODYNAMICS; PERTURBATION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SURF ZONE; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; WAVE ACTION;

EID: 43049132460     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2008.01.017     Document Type: Article

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