Longshore transport estimation and inter-annual variability at a high-energy dissipative beach: St. Trojan beach, SW Oléron Island, France

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 28, Issue 10-11, 2008, Pages 1316-1332

  Bertin, Xavier ^a,b   Castelle, Bruno ^c,d   Chaumillon, Eric ^b   Butel, Rémi ^e   Quique, Robin ^b  

^a NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR CIVIL ENGINEERING   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

Author keywords

Dissipative beach; Fluorescent tracers; Longshore transport; Numerical model; Wave induced currents

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; BEACH; DISSIPATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; LONGSHORE TRANSPORT; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; WAVE CLIMATE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ATLANTIC COAST [EUROPE]; ATLANTIC COAST [FRANCE]; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; OLERON ISLAND; SAINT TROJAN BEACH; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 44449141505     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2008.03.005     Document Type: Article

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