Reversed sediment wave migration in the Irish Sea, NW Europe: A reappraisal of the validity of geometry-based predictive modelling and assumptions

Marine Geology

Volumn 295-298, Issue , 2012, Pages 95-112

  Van Landeghem, Katrien J J ^a   Baas, Jaco H ^b   Mitchell, Neil C ^c   Wilcockson, Darren ^b   Wheeler, Andrew J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Geometry; Irish Sea; Migration; Sediment waves; Swath bathymetry

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS; DEGREE OF MOBILITY; GEOMETRICAL PARAMETERS; HIGH DEMAND; IRISH SEA; LOCAL HYDRODYNAMICS; MIGRATION; MIGRATION PATHWAY; MIGRATION RATES; NATURAL VARIABILITY; OFFSHORE ENGINEERING; PREDICTIVE MODELLING; PREDICTIVE TOOLS; SAMPLING METHOD; SEDIMENT WAVES; SONAR SYSTEM; STATISTICAL CORRELATION; SWATH BATHYMETRY; TRANSPORT DIRECTION;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BATHYMETRY; GEOMETRY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SURVEYS;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ASYMMETRY; COASTAL ZONE; MOBILITY; PREDICTION; SEAFLOOR; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT WAVE; SONAR; SWATH BATHYMETRY; WAVE FIELD;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EUROPE; IRISH SEA;

EID: 84855766825     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2011.12.004     Document Type: Article

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