Cumulative versus transient shoreline change: Dependencies on temporal and spatial scale

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 116, Issue F2, 2011, Pages

  Lazarus, Eli ^a   Ashton, Andrew ^b   Murray, A Brad ^c   Tebbens, Sarah ^d   Burroughs, Stephen ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; MORPHODYNAMICS; POWER LAW; SHORELINE CHANGE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

NORTH CAROLINA; OUTER BANKS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84873932955     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JF001835     Document Type: Article

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