A hydrodynamic and sediment transport model for the Waipaoa Shelf, New Zealand: Sensitivity of fluxes to spatially-varying erodibility and model nesting

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 336-369

  Moriarty, Julia M ^a   Harris, Courtney K ^a   Hadfield, Mark G ^b  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Erodibility; Model nesting; New Zealand; Numerical modeling; Sediment transport; Waipaoa shelf

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907313362     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20771312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/jmse2020336     Document Type: Article

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