Long-term morphological evolution of funnel-shape tide-dominated estuaries

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Todeschini, Ilaria ^a,b   Toffolon, Marco ^b   Tubino, Marco ^b  

^a Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering ^*  (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEACHES; FRICTION;

CLOSED BOUNDARY; DEGREE OF CONVERGENCE; EQUILIBRIUM PROFILES; EQUILIBRIUM STATE; MAIN PARAMETERS; MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL; PHYSICAL DIMENSIONS; RIVER DISCHARGE; SYSTEM APPROACH; TIDAL ASYMMETRY; TIDAL CHANNEL;

ESTUARIES;

ASYMMETRY; CONVERGENCE; EQUILIBRIUM; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; RIVER DISCHARGE; TIDAL CHANNEL;

EID: 67651073481     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JC004094     Document Type: Article

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