Observations and modeling of steep-beach grain-size variability

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 577-591

  Reniers, A J H M ^a   Gallagher, E L ^b   MacMahan, J H ^c   Brown, J A ^c   Van Rooijen, A A ^d,e   Van Thiel De Vries, J S M ^d,e   Van Prooijen, B C ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^d DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^e DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEACHES; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; LIQUID WAVES; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS;

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; BEACH PROFILE EVOLUTION; DIGITAL CAMERA SYSTEM; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; GRAIN-SIZE DISTRIBUTION; MODELING APPROACH; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIATION; TRANSPORT CAPACITY;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

BEACH; DIGITAL IMAGE; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; GRAIN SIZE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SORTING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURF ZONE; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; WAVE BREAKING; WAVE MODELING;

EID: 84876518694     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JC008073     Document Type: Article

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