Short-term sand coarsening process in a backshore between headlands

Proceedings of the Coastal Engineering Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1901-1913

  Udo, Keiko ^a   Tanabe, Hironori ^b   Mano, Akira ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Maebashi Municipal Office   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEACHES; COASTAL ENGINEERING; OSTWALD RIPENING; SAND; TOPOGRAPHY;

COARSE SANDS; COARSENING PROCESS; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SAND GRAIN SIZE; SHORT TERM; WIND ACTION; WIND IMPACTS;

COARSENING;

EID: 84873839679     PISSN: 01613782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1142/9789814277426_0157     Document Type: Conference Paper

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