Backshore coarsening processes triggered by wave-induced sand transport: The critical role of storm events

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1269-1280

  Udo, Keiko ^a   Mano, Akira ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aeolian sand transport; Beach processes; Field analyses; Numerical analyses; Wave run up

Indexed keywords

AEOLIAN SAND; BEACH PROCESSES; COARSENING MECHANISMS; COARSENING PROCESS; FIELD ANALYSIS; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; INTERMEDIATE ZONE; NEARSHORES; ONSHORE WINDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; REASONABLE VALUE; SAND GRAIN SIZE; SAND TRANSPORT; SANDY BEACH; SEDIMENTARY PROCESS; SPATIAL FIELDS; STORM EVENTS; WAVE RUN-UP; WIND ACTION; WIND DATA;

BEACHES; COARSENING; COASTAL ENGINEERING; COASTAL ZONES; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STORMS;

SAND;

BEACH EROSION; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; FIELD METHOD; GRAIN SIZE; NUMERICAL METHOD; SAND; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SHORELINE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STORM; WAVE FORCE; WAVE RUNUP;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 77956692749     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1951     Document Type: Article

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