Sediment entrainment to the lee of roughness elements: Effects of vortical structures

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Sutton, Stephen L F ^a   Neuman, C McKenna ^a  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTRAINMENT; LEE WAVE; SAND; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SHEAR STRESS; STRESS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WIND VELOCITY;

SALTATOR;

EID: 50849120089     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JF000783     Document Type: Article

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