Field and laboratory measurements of mean overtopping discharges and spatial distributions at vertical seawalls

Coastal Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 121-140

  Pullen, Tim ^a   Allsop, William ^a   Bruce, Tom ^b   Pearson, Jonathan ^c  

^a HR Wallingford   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Field measurements; Laboratory measurements; Scale effects; Vertical seawall; Wave overtopping

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CAPACITY; ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; MEASUREMENTS; RESEARCH LABORATORIES; RETAINING WALLS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL TESTS; TANKS (CONTAINERS); TESTING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WATER LEVELS; WATER WAVES;

FIELD MEASUREMENTS; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; SCALE EFFECTS; VERTICAL SEAWALL; WAVE OVERTOPPING;

LABORATORIES;

COASTAL ENGINEERING; DISCHARGE; MODEL TEST; OVERTOPPING; PARAMETERIZATION; SCALE EFFECT; SEA WALL; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STORM SURGE;

CRITHMUM MARITIMUM;

EID: 59149089365     PISSN: 03783839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2008.03.011     Document Type: Article

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