Morphological evolution of the Dee Estuary, Eastern Irish Sea, UK: A tidal asymmetry approach

Geomorphology

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 588-596

  Moore, Rowena D ^a,b   Wolf, Judith ^b   Souza, Alejandro J ^b   Flint, Stephen S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dee estuary; Hydrodynamics; Hypsometry; Morphology; Sediment transport; Tidal asymmetry

Indexed keywords

ELEVATION; EPHEMERAL STREAM; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYPSOMETRY; LIDAR; MORPHOLOGY; NAVIGATION CHANNEL; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TIDAL FLAT;

DEE ESTUARY; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 57349133914     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2008.08.003     Document Type: Article

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