Use of video imagery to test model predictions of surf heights

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 126, Issue , 2009, Pages 39-50

  Huntley, D ^a   Saulter, A ^b   Kingston, K ^a   Holman, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breaking wave heights; Coastal video imagery; Wave modelling

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; BREAKING WAVE; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURF ZONE; VIDEOGRAPHY; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE MODELING;

CORNWALL [ENGLAND]; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; PERRANPORTH; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 71649108345     PISSN: 17433541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2495/CP090041     Document Type: Article

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