Floods and cold front passages: Impacts on coastal marshes in a river diversion setting (Wax Lake Delta Area, Louisiana)

Journal of Coastal Research

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1057-1068

  Roberts, Harry H ^a   DeLaune, Ronald D ^a   White, John R ^a   Li, Chunyan ^a   Sasser, Charles E ^a   Braud, Dewitt ^a   Weeks, Edward ^a   Khalil, Syed ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Louisiana Applied Coastal Engineering and Science Division   (United States)

Author keywords

Atchafalaya Bay; Cold fronts; marsh productivity; river diversions; river floods; sediment accumulation; Wax Lake delta

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; COASTAL PLAIN; COLD FRONT; DOPPLER EFFECT; FLOOD; LIDAR; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORGANIC MATTER; OVERBANK FLOW; RIVER WATER; SUSPENDED LOAD; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; SYNERGISM;

ATCHAFALAYA BAY; ATCHAFALAYA DELTA; LOUISIANA; MISSISSIPPI RIVER; MISSISSIPPI RIVER ALLUVIAL PLAIN; UNITED STATES; WAX LAKE DELTA;

EID: 84940902679     PISSN: 07490208     EISSN: 15515036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-14-00173.1     Document Type: Article

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