Improved parameterization of seagrass blade dynamics and wave attenuation based on numerical and laboratory experiments

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 251-266

  Zeller, Robert B ^a   Weitzman, Joel S ^a   Abbett, Morgan E ^a   Zarama, Francisco J ^a   Fringer, Oliver B ^a   Koseff, Jeffrey R ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ETHYLENE; LABORATORY METHOD; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; SEAGRASS; VEGETATION TYPE; VELOCITY; WAVE ATTENUATION;

EID: 84892703034     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2014.59.1.0251     Document Type: Article

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