Intrawave observations of sediment entrainment processes above sand ripples under irregular waves

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  O'Hara Murray, R B ^a,b   Thorne, P D ^b   Hodgson, D M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VORTEX FLOW; VORTEX SHEDDING;

ACOUSTIC MEASUREMENTS; BED FORMS; COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS; ENTRAINMENT PROCESS; HALF CYCLE; IRREGULAR WAVES; PARAMETERIZED; REGULAR WAVES; RIPPLE WAVELENGTH; SAND RIPPLE; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; SMALL-SCALE PROCESS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT CONCENTRATIONS; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; VORTEX FORMATION; WATER VELOCITIES;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

BEDFORM; COASTAL ZONE; ENTRAINMENT; FLUME EXPERIMENT; PLANE; RIPPLE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; VORTEX SHEDDING; WAVE FORCE; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 78651342880     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JC006216     Document Type: Article

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