Impacts of Hurricane Ike on the beaches of the Bolivar Peninsula, TX, USA

Geomorphology

Volumn 199, Issue , 2013, Pages 62-81

  Sherman, Douglas J ^a   Hales, Billy U ^b   Potts, Michael K ^c   Ellis, Jean T ^d   Liu, Hongxing ^e   Houser, Chris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Casey Trees   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Beach erosion; Digital terrain models; Flow environments; LiDAR; Scour morphology

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; BEACH EROSION; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; EROSION RATE; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; HURRICANE IKE 2008; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIDAR; SCOUR; STORM SURGE;

BOLIVAR PENINSULA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

POACEAE;

EID: 84883550659     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2013.06.011     Document Type: Article

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