Wave-current interaction in Willapa Bay

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Olabarrieta, Maitane ^a   Warner, John C ^a   Kumar, Nirnimesh ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; STORMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WATER LEVELS;

BED ROUGHNESS; BOTTOM SHEAR STRESS; FIELD DATA; FORCING TERMS; FULLY-COUPLED; LEADING TERMS; MODEL RESULTS; MODELING SYSTEMS; MOMENTUM BALANCES; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; STORM EVENTS; SURF ZONES; U.S. ARMY; UPSTREAM STATIONS; WASHINGTON STATE; WATER ELEVATION; WAVE CURRENT INTERACTION; WAVE MEASUREMENT;

SHEAR FLOW;

BED ROUGHNESS; DATA SET; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; HYDRODYNAMICS; MOMENTUM; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SHEAR STRESS; STORM; SURF ZONE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VORTEX; WATER LEVEL; WAVE BREAKING; WAVE MODELING; WAVE-CURRENT INTERACTION;

UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES]; WILLAPA BAY;

EID: 83655190996     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007387     Document Type: Article

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