Beach morphodynamics and types of foredune erosion generated by storms along the Emilia-Romagna coastline, Italy

Geomorphology

Volumn 199, Issue , 2013, Pages 22-35

  Armaroli, Clara ^a   Grottoli, Edoardo ^a   Harley, Mitchell D ^a   Ciavola, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dune system; Dune vulnerability; Morphological model; XBeach

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; BEACH MORPHOLOGY; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; COASTAL ZONE; DUNE FIELD; DUNE FORMATION; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; LIDAR; TOPOGRAPHY;

ADRIATIC COAST [ITALY]; EMILIA-ROMAGNA; ITALY;

EMILIA;

EID: 84883456390     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2013.04.034     Document Type: Article

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