Fetch-limited self-organization of elongate water bodies

Geology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 187-190

  Ashton, Andrew D ^a   Murray, A Brad ^b   Littlewood, Ryan ^b   Lewis, David A ^b   Hong, Pauline ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASTIC SEDIMENTS; ENSEMBLE MODELS; INITIAL SEGMENTATION; LOCAL NET; NATURALLY OCCURRING; NUMERICAL MODELS; SEDIMENT FLUX; SELF-ORGANIZATIONS; SYMMETRIC WIND; WATERBODIES; WAVE INSTABILITY;

COASTAL ZONES; LANDFORMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PRESSURE DROP; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ASPECT RATIO;

CLASTIC SEDIMENT; COAST; COASTAL EVOLUTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FETCH; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEGMENTATION;

EID: 69649101409     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G25299A.1     Document Type: Article

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