Coastal ocean transport patterns in the central Southern California Bight

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 454, Issue , 2009, Pages 193-226

  Noble, Marlene A ^a   Rosenberger, Kurt J ^b   Hamilton, Peter ^c   Xu, J P ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCATION; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS; TIDES; TOPOGRAPHY;

AMPLITUDE VARIATIONS; MUNICIPAL AGENCIES; NEAR SURFACE FLOW; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BIGHT; SUSPENDED MATERIAL; TIDAL FREQUENCIES; TRANSPORT DIRECTION; TRANSPORT PATTERNS;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

DATA SET; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SHELF BREAK; SHELF DYNAMICS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TIDAL CURRENT; TIDAL MODELING; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BIGHT;

EID: 75149179553     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2009.2454(3.3)     Document Type: Article

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