Beach erosion and recovery during consecutive storms at a steep-sloping, meso-tidal beach

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 583-593

  Vousdoukas, Michalis I ^a,b   Almeida, Luis Pedro M ^b   Ferreira, Óscar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

^b Forschungszentrum Küste ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Beach recovery; Coastal erosion; Coastal storms; Nearshore bars; Storm groups

Indexed keywords

AREA RECOVERY; BEACH EROSION; BEACH PROFILE; BEACH RESPONSE; COASTAL EROSION; COASTAL STORM; CONTROLLING FACTORS; DATA SETS; DUNE EROSION; DYNAMIC NATURE; HYDRODYNAMIC FORCING; MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES; MORPHOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; NEARSHORE BARS; NEARSHORES; PORTUGAL; STORM EVENTS; STORM WAVES; SURF ZONES; SWASH ZONE; TEMPORAL SCALE; TIDAL DATA; TIME-AVERAGED; TOPOGRAPHIC SURVEYS; VOLUME REDUCTIONS; WAVE RUNUP;

COASTAL ENGINEERING; EROSION; MORPHOLOGY; RECOVERY; STORMS;

BEACHES;

BAR; BEACH EROSION; BEACH MORPHOLOGY; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; SHORELINE CHANGE; STORM SURGE; SURF ZONE; WAVE RUNUP;

FARO [PORTUGAL]; PORTUGAL;

EID: 84859861532     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.2264     Document Type: Article

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