The effect of wind waves on the development of river mouth bars

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Nardin, William ^a,b   Fagherazzi, Sergio ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

BAR GROWTHS; BOTTOM FRICTION; BOTTOM SHEAR STRESS; DELFT3D; DELTA DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN POPULATION; KEY PROCESS; MARINE COASTLINE; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; RIVER DELTAS; SEDIMENT DISCHARGE; WAVE CHARACTERISTICS; WAVE MODELS; WIND WAVE;

RIVERS;

BOTTOM FRICTION; COASTAL ZONE; DELTA; JET; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SHEAR STRESS; WAVE MODELING; WIND WAVE;

EID: 84863330984     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051788     Document Type: Article

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