Tidal and meteorological forcing of suspended sediment flux in a muddy mesotidal estuary

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 843-859

  French, J R ^a   Burningham, H ^a   Benson, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b HR WALLINGFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic Doppler profiler; Blyth estuary; Climate change; Cohesive sediment transport; Estuary waves; Resuspension; Sediment budget; Singular spectrum analysis; Suffolk; UK

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; BATHYMETRIC SURVEY; CLIMATE FORCING; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE; FLUX MEASUREMENT; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MORPHOLOGY; RESUSPENSION; SEDIMENT BUDGET; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TIME SERIES; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; WIND STRESS;

BLYTHE ESTUARY; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; SUFFOLK; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 52949143081     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-008-9072-5     Document Type: Article

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