Coupled barrier island-resort model: 2. Tests and predictions along Ocean City and Assateague Island National Seashore, Maryland

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  McNamara, D E ^a,b   Werner, B T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARRIER ISLAND; COASTAL EROSION; LONGSHORE TRANSPORT; MODELING; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SHORELINE CHANGE; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT;

ASSATEAGUE ISLAND; ASSATEAGUE ISLAND NATIONAL SEASHORE; MARYLAND; NORTH AMERICA; OCEAN CITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 44449145916     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JF000841     Document Type: Article

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