A model of inter-annual variability in beach levels

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 28, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 1769-1781

  Neill, Simon P ^a   Elliott, Alan J ^a   Hashemi, Mohammad R ^b  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Beach profiles; Coastal morphology; Irish Sea; Longshore sediment transport; Tidal models; Wave models

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; BATHYMETRIC SURVEY; BEACH PROFILE; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TIDAL MODELING; WAVE MODELING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EURASIA; EUROPE; GWYNEDD; IRISH SEA; TREMADOG BAY; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 47649124803     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2008.04.004     Document Type: Article

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