Revisiting mobile bed tests for beach profile dynamics

Coastal Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 583-593

  Sánchez Arcilla, Agustín ^a   Cáceres, Iván ^a   van Rijn, Leo ^b   Grüne, Joachim ^c  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^c NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEACH PROFILE; CONTROLLED CONDITIONS; DIFFERENT SCALE; ERROR BOUND; EXPERIMENTAL FACILITIES; FIELD MEASUREMENT; FULLY COMPATIBLE; HYDRAULIC TESTS; MOBILE BED; MORPHODYNAMIC ANALYSIS; REDUCED SCALE; SMALL SCALE; SWASH ZONE; WAVE FLUMES; WET AND DRY;

BEACHES; ERROR ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

TESTING;

ACCRETION; BEACH EROSION; BEACH PROFILE; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; FIELD METHOD; MORPHODYNAMICS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SURF ZONE; TESTING METHOD; WAVE RUNUP;

EID: 79957977764     PISSN: 03783839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2011.01.005     Document Type: Article

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