Modelling storm impacts on beaches, dunes and barrier islands

Coastal Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 11-12, 2009, Pages 1133-1152

  Roelvink, Dano ^a,b,c   Reniers, Ad ^c,d   van Dongeren, Ap ^b   van Thiel de Vries, Jaap ^b,c   McCall, Robert ^b,c   Lescinski, Jamie ^b  

^a UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^b DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Breaching; Dune erosion; Low frequency waves; Modelling; Morphology; Overtopping; Overwashing; Swash; XBeach

Indexed keywords

BREACHING; DUNE EROSION; LOW-FREQUENCY WAVES; MODELLING; OVERTOPPING; OVERWASHING; SWASH; XBEACH;

MORPHOLOGY;

STORMS;

AVALANCHE; BARRIER ISLAND; BEACH; COASTAL EROSION; DUNE; FIELD METHOD; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; GRAVITY WAVE; HURRICANE; LABORATORY METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; OVERTOPPING; STORM; SURF ZONE; WAVE GENERATION; WAVE RUNUP;

EID: 70349782177     PISSN: 03783839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2009.08.006     Document Type: Article

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