Coherence of river and ocean conditions along the US West Coast during storms

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 31, Issue 7-8, 2011, Pages 789-805

  Kniskern, Tara A ^a,b   Warrick, Jonathan A ^b   Farnsworth, Katherine L ^c   Wheatcroft, Robert A ^d   Goñi, Miguel A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Continental shelves; River discharge; River ocean coherence; Seasonal time scales; Sediment transport; Wave orbital velocities

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DOWNWELLING; FLOOD; LATITUDE; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; NOAA SATELLITE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OCEANIC CURRENT; RESUSPENSION; RIVER DISCHARGE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STORM; TIMESCALE; VELOCITY; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE GENERATION;

PACIFIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; PACIFIC COAST [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79953737335     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2011.01.012     Document Type: Article

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