A Field Study of How Wind Waves and Currents May Contribute to the Deterioration of Saltmarsh Fringe

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 935-950

  Karimpour, Arash ^a   Chen, Qin ^b   Twilley, Robert R ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Louisiana State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Saltmarsh wetland; Vegetated flow; Wave orbital velocity; Wave induced current; Wetland erosion

Indexed keywords

COASTAL CURRENT; COASTAL WETLAND; CURRENT VELOCITY; FIELD METHOD; LONGSHORE CURRENT; SALTMARSH; SOIL EROSION; SUBMERGENCE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WAVE-CURRENT INTERACTION; WIND WAVE;

LOUISIANA; MISSISSIPPI DELTA; TERREBONNE BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84946944294     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-015-0047-z     Document Type: Article

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