Beach profile evolution as an inverse problem

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 29, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 2234-2239

  Karunarathna, Harshinie ^a   Reeve, Dominic E ^b   Spivack, Mark ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beach profiles; Coastal morphology; Diffusion coefficient; Inverse method; Source function

Indexed keywords

BEACH PROFILE; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; INVERSE PROBLEM; MORPHODYNAMICS; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION;

CHRISTCHURCH BAY; DORSET [ENGLAND]; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 70349847556     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2009.08.016     Document Type: Article

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