Nearshore circulation in a tropical fringing reef system

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Taebi, Soheila ^a   Lowe, Ryan J ^a   Pattiaratchi, Charitha B ^a   Ivey, Greg N ^a   Symonds, Graham ^b   Brinkman, Richard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; FREQUENCY BANDS; LAKES; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEA LEVEL; TIDES; WATER LEVELS; WATER WAVES;

ALONGSHORE FLOW; BUOYANCY EFFECT; CURRENT FIELDS; CURRENT VELOCITY; FIELD EXPERIMENT; HIGH-FREQUENCY CURRENT; INCIDENT WAVES; LOW FREQUENCY; LOW FREQUENCY BAND; MEAN SEA LEVEL; MEAN WATER LEVELS; NEARSHORE CIRCULATION; OBSERVATION PERIOD; TIDAL FREQUENCIES; TIDAL MODULATION; TIDAL VARIATIONS; TIME-SCALES; WAVE HEIGHTS; WAVEBREAKING; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

REEFS;

CURRENT VELOCITY; DATA ACQUISITION; LAGOON; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; REEF; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TIDAL CURRENT; WAVE BREAKING; WAVE HEIGHT; WIND FORCING;

AUSTRALIA; NINGALOO REEF; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 79951848602     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JC006439     Document Type: Article

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