Variability of the Southern California wave climate and implications for sediment transport

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 454, Issue , 2009, Pages 171-191

  Xu, J P ^a   Noble, Marlene A ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYS; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; STORMS; WATER WAVES;

CONTINENTAL SHELVES; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SANTA BARBARA CHANNELS; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BIGHT; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TEMPORAL TRENDS;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

CONTINENTAL SHELF; PROBABILITY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SHELF BREAK; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SWELL; TREND ANALYSIS; WAVE ACTION; WAVE HEIGHT; WIND WAVE;

CALIFORNIA; DANA POINT; PACIFIC OCEAN; POINT CONCEPTION; SANTA BARBARA CHANNEL; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BIGHT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 75149191883     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2009.2454(3.2)     Document Type: Article

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