Hydro-meteorological influences and multimodal suspended particle size distributions in the Belgian nearshore area (southern North Sea)

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 123-137

  Fettweis, Michael ^a   Baeye, Matthias ^b   Lee, Byung Joon ^c   Chen, Peihung ^d   Yu, Jason C S ^d  

^a ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALONGSHORE FLOW; BUILDING BLOCKES; ENTROPY ANALYSIS; MIXED SEDIMENTS; MULTI-MODAL; MULTIMODAL BEHAVIOUR; NEARSHORES; PRIMARY PARTICLES; SOUTHERN NORTH SEA; STORM EVENTS; SUSPENDED PARTICLES; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTERS; TURBIDITY MAXIMA; UNIMODAL;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CARBONATE MINERALS; CLAY MINERALS; COASTAL ENGINEERING; FLOCCULATION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SILT; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STORMS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS; TURBIDITY;

SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

FLOCCULATION; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; PARTICLE SIZE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; TIDAL CURRENT; TURBIDITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BELGIUM; NORTH SEA;

EID: 84859104314     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: 14321157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00367-011-0266-7     Document Type: Article

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