Dependence of total longshore sediment transport rates on incident wave parameters and breaker type

Journal of Coastal Research

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 675-683

  Smith, Ernest R ^a   Wang, Ping ^b   Ebersole, Bruce A ^a   Zhang, Jun ^c  

^a WATERWAYS EXPERIMENT STATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerc formula; Longshore sediment transport; Nearshore sediment transport; Physical modeling; Sediment transport processes; Surf zone processes; Wave breaking

Indexed keywords

BEACH; CALIBRATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LONGSHORE TRANSPORT; NUMERICAL MODEL; SURF ZONE; WAVE BREAKING; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE RUNUP;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67649565713     PISSN: 07490208     EISSN: 15515036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2112/07-0919.1     Document Type: Article

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