Bottom sediment suspension due to wave-current effects at the mouth of the Columbia River, USA

Coastal Engineering 2000 - Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Coastal Engineering, ICCE 2000

Volumn 276, Issue , 2000, Pages 2956-2969

  Moritz, Hans R ^a   Smith, Jarrell W ^b   Kraus, Nicholas C ^b   Gailani, Joe Z ^b  

^a US Army Corps of Engineers   (United States)

^b WATERWAYS EXPERIMENT STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM CURRENT; BOTTOM SEDIMENTS; COLUMBIA RIVER; CURRENT EFFECT; HIGHER ORDER EFFECTS; PRESSURE SIGNAL; SEABED SEDIMENTS; SEDIMENT SUSPENSION; SPECTRAL PEAK; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TIDAL SHOAL; WATER DEPTH; WAVE GROUP; WAVE GROUPING; WAVE HEIGHTS;

COASTAL ENGINEERING; SPECIAL EFFECTS;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

EID: 57449110782     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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