Impacts of a Wave Farm on Waves, Currents and Coastal Morphology in South West England

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 159-172

  Gonzalez Santamaria, R ^a   Zou, Q P ^b   Pan, S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b The University of Maine   (United States)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coastal morphology; ROMS; Sediment transport; SWAN; Wave farm; Wave tide interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878367248     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-013-9634-z     Document Type: Article

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