Nearshore wave environments around a sandy cay on a platform reef, Torres Strait, Australia

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 28, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 2257-2274

  Samosorn, Bongkoch ^a   Woodroffe, Colin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Platform reef; Reef island; Torres Strait; Warraber; Wave transformation

Indexed keywords

ISLAND; NEARSHORE ENVIRONMENT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REEF; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE SPECTRUM; WIND WAVE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND; TORRES STRAIT; WARRABER ISLAND;

EID: 50849089924     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2008.03.043     Document Type: Article

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