Morphodynamics of tidal networks: Advances and challenges

Marine Geology

Volumn 346, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-16

  Coco, Giovanni ^a   Zhou, Z ^a   van Maanen, B ^b   Olabarrieta, M ^a   Tinoco, R ^a   Townend, I ^c  

^a ENVIRONMENTAL HYDRAULICS INSTITUTE IH CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c HR WALLINGFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomorphodynamics; Laboratory experiments; Morphodynamic modelling; Tidal flats; Tidal networks

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; BIOMORPHODYNAMICS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LONG-TERM EVOLUTION; LONG-TERM PREDICTION; MORPHODYNAMIC MODELLING; MORPHODYNAMICS; TIDAL FLAT;

BIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTS;

PHYSICAL ADDRESSES;

MORPHODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEAFLOOR; TIDAL MODELING;

EID: 84883830156     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2013.08.005     Document Type: Review

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