Sorted bedform pattern evolution: Persistence, destruction and self-organized intermittency

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 24, 2011, Pages

  Goldstein, Evan B ^a   Murray, A Brad ^a   Coco, Giovanni ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ENVIRONMENTAL HYDRAULICS INSTITUTE IH CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITY (SUPERCONDUCTIVITY); STATE FEEDBACK;

ACTIVE LAYER; BED FORMS; COARSE DOMAIN; COARSE MATERIALS; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; CRITICAL STATE; DEFECT DYNAMICS; INTERMITTENCY; LONG-TERM EVOLUTION; NUMERICAL MODELING; ORBITAL VELOCITIES; PATTERN EVOLUTION; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; SPATIAL TEMPORALS; STORM EVENTS; WAVE CLIMATES; WAVELENGTH PATTERNS;

STORMS;

ACTIVE LAYER; BEDFORM; COASTAL EVOLUTION; CONTINENTAL SHELF; HETEROGENEITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERSISTENCE; SEAFLOOR; SORTING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STORM; WAVE CLIMATE; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 84855321170     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049732     Document Type: Article

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