The dynamics of infragravity wave transformation over a fringing reef

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Pomeroy, Andrew ^a,b,c   Lowe, Ryan ^a   Symonds, Graham ^d   Van Dongeren, Ap ^b   Moore, Christine ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

^e Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM FRICTION; BREAKPOINT; FIELD STUDIES; FRICTIONAL DISSIPATION; GENERATION PROCESS; INFRAGRAVITY; INFRAGRAVITY WAVES; SHALLOW REEFS; SHALLOW WATERS; SHORT WAVES; SURF ZONES; WATER DEPTH; WAVE MOTIONS; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

FRICTION; GRAVITY WAVES; LAKES; REEFS; WATER LEVELS;

WATER WAVES;

DOMINANCE; FRICTION; FRINGING REEF; GRAVITY WAVE; LAGOON; NUMERICAL METHOD; SIMULATION; SURF ZONE; WATER DEPTH; WATER LEVEL; WAVE PROPAGATION;

AUSTRALIA; NINGALOO REEF; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84870222617     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JC008310     Document Type: Article

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