Bedforms: Views and new perspectives from the third international workshop on Marine and River Dune Dynamics (MARID3)

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 319-329

  Parsons, Daniel R ^a   Best, Jim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bedforms; Dunes; Flow turbulence; Sediment transport

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874710408     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.3360     Document Type: Editorial

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