Sediment trend models fail to reproduce small-scale sediment transport patterns on an intertidal beach

Sedimentology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 667-687

  Masselink, Gerhard ^a   Buscombe, Daniel ^a   Austin, Martin ^a   O'hare, Tim ^a   Russell, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beach morphology; Hyperbolic triangle; Log hyperbolic distribution; Nearshore sediment transport; Particle analysis; Sediment trend models

Indexed keywords

BEACH MORPHOLOGY; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TREND ANALYSIS;

EID: 43149112108     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2007.00917.x     Document Type: Article

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