Sand transport measurements in Chioggia inlet, Venice lagoon: Theory versus observations

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1000-1018

  Villatoro, Monique M ^a   Amos, Carl L ^a   Umgiesser, Georg ^b   Ferrarin, Christian ^b   Zaggia, Luca ^b   Thompson, Charlotte E L ^a   Are, Daniele ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c Società per l' Ecologia delle Lagune e delle Coste   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bedload samplers; Profiles concentration; Sand transport; Thresholds; Tidal inlets

Indexed keywords

BEDLOAD; BOUNDARY LAYER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SPATIAL VARIATION; THRESHOLD; TIDAL INLET; WATER COLUMN;

CHIOGGIA; ITALY; VENETO; VENEZIA [VENETO];

EID: 77951208733     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2009.06.008     Document Type: Article

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