Daily morphological changes determined by high-energy events on an embayed beach: A qualitative model

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 487-495

  Martins, Cristina Celia ^a,b   de Mahiques, Michel Michaelovitch ^a   Dias, João Manuel Alveirinho ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Secretaria do Meio Ambiente do Estado de Sao Paulo   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Embayed beach; Morphological changes; South atlantic; Storms

Indexed keywords

BEACH EROSION; BEACH VOLUME CHANGE; BRAZILIAN COAST; HIGH-ENERGY EVENTS; INTEGRATED EVALUATION; MORPHODYNAMICS; MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES; MORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; QUALITATIVE MODEL; REAL-TIME KINEMATIC; RTK-GPS; SHORE EROSIONS; SOUTH ATLANTIC; TIME INTERVAL; TOPOGRAPHIC SURVEYS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE HEIGHTS; WAVE MODELS;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MORPHOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; ROTATION; STORMS; SURVEYS; WATER WAVES; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

BEACHES;

ACCRETION; BEACH EROSION; BEACH MORPHOLOGY; HYDRODYNAMICS; MODELING; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; STORM; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WAVE ENERGY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

EID: 77950225051     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1965     Document Type: Article

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