The impact of the 2009-10 El Niño Modoki on U.S. West Coast beaches

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 13, 2011, Pages

  Barnard, Patrick L ^a   Allan, Jonathan ^b   Hansen, Jeff E ^a,c   Kaminsky, George M ^d   Ruggiero, Peter ^e   Doria, André ^f  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY   (United States)

^e OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; MONITORING; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OCEAN CURRENTS; WATER LEVELS; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

BEACH MONITORING; CALIFORNIA; COASTAL CHANGE; COASTAL WATER LEVEL; EASTERN PACIFIC; ENVIRONMENTAL FORCING; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; EXTREME WAVES; HIGH RESOLUTION; MORPHODYNAMIC RESPONSE; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; SHORELINE POSITION; SST ANOMALIES; TIDAL INLET; WARM SEA; WASHINGTON; WATER-LEVEL DATA; WAVE APPROACH; WAVE ENERGY; WEST COAST;

BEACHES;

BEACH MORPHOLOGY; COASTAL WATER; EL NINO; MORPHODYNAMICS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SHORELINE CHANGE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER LEVEL; WAVE ENERGY;

OREGON; PACIFIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; PACIFIC COAST [UNITED STATES]; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST); UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 79960231857     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047707     Document Type: Article

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