Probability distributions for wave runup on beaches

Coastal Engineering

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 575-584

  Hughes, Michael G ^a   Moseley, Adrienne S ^b   Baldock, Tom E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Beach processes; Coastal inundation; Morphodynamics; Swash; Wave runup

Indexed keywords

BEACH PROCESS; BEACH RESPONSE; ERGODICS; LEVEL STATISTICS; MORPHODYNAMIC MODELING; MORPHODYNAMICS; NON-LINEAR; WAVE CONDITIONS; WAVE RUNUP;

BEACHES; PRODUCTION PLATFORMS; RANDOM PROCESSES; RANDOM VARIABLES; TIME SERIES;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

BEACH; BEACH MORPHOLOGY; COASTAL EVOLUTION; MORPHODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; SHORELINE CHANGE; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE RUNUP;

EID: 77950859775     PISSN: 03783839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2010.01.001     Document Type: Article

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