Storm surge and surface waves in a shallow lagoonal estuary during the crossing of a hurricane

Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering

Volumn 141, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Mulligan, Ryan P ^a   Walsh, J P ^b   Wadman, Heidi M ^c  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Field Research Facility   (United States)

Author keywords

Barrier islands; Currents; Estuaries; Flooding; High water levels; Hurricanes; Hydrodynamic modeling; Storm surge; Surface waves; Wave modeling

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ESTUARIES; FLOODS; FLUIDS; HURRICANES; HYDRODYNAMICS; OCEAN CURRENTS; OIL WELL FLOODING; STORMS; WATER LEVELS; WATER WAVES;

BARRIER ISLANDS; ESTUARINE SHORELINES; FLUID MOMENTUM EQUATIONS; HYDRODYNAMIC MODEL; STORM SURGES; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; WATER SURFACE ELEVATIONS; WAVE MODELING;

SURFACE WAVES;

BARRIER ISLAND; COASTAL LAGOON; ESTUARINE DYNAMICS; HURRICANE; HYDRODYNAMICS; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; STORM SURGE; SURFACE WAVE; WAVE MODELING; WIND WAVE;

EID: 84931024154     PISSN: 0733950X     EISSN: 19435460     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)WW.1943-5460.0000260     Document Type: Article

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