Turbidity dynamics in upper terrebonne bay, Louisiana

Sediment Transport: Monitoring, Modeling and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 339-360

  Karimpour, Arash ^a,b   Chen, Qin ^a,b   Jadhav, Ranjit ^a  

^a Louisiana State University   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottom shear stress; Hydrodynamic forcing; Sediment suspension; Shallow estuary; Turbidity; Wetland erosion; Wind waves; Winter storms

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892074699     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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