Solitary wave behavior in sand dunes observed from space

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 22, 2011, Pages

  Vermeesch, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

ANALOG MODELS; BARCHAN DUNES; DUNE COLLISIONS; PAPER DOCUMENTS; SAND DUNES; SATELLITE IMAGES; SHAPE-PRESERVING; SOLITARY WAVE; SOLITARY-WAVE BEHAVIOR; TIME SEQUENCES; TIME-SCALES;

SOLITONS;

COLLISION; DUNE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOLITARY WAVE; TIMESCALE;

EID: 81755171964     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049610     Document Type: Article

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