Modes and emergent time scales of embayed beach dynamics

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 7270-7275

  Ratliff, Katherine M ^a   Murray, A Brad ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

embayed beach; pocket beach; shoreline rotation

Indexed keywords

BEACHES; ROTATION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TIME MEASUREMENT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WHITE NOISE;

BEACH SEDIMENTS; BREATHING MODES; CHARACTERISTIC TIME; EVOLUTION MODELING; EXTERNAL FORCING; INTERNAL SYSTEMS; ORTHOGONAL MODES; WAVE CLIMATES;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

BEACH; COAST; COASTAL EVOLUTION; CURVATURE; EMBANKMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SHORELINE; TIMESCALE;

EID: 84911404793     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL061680     Document Type: Article

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