Storm-scale effects of shore-parallel breakwaters on beaches in a Tidal Setting (Leacoast)

Proceedings of the Coastal Engineering Conference

Volumn 2005-January, Issue , 2005, Pages 2849-2861

  Dolphin, Tony ^a   Taylor, Jon ^a   Vincent, Chris ^a   Bacon, John ^a   Pan, Shunqi ^b   O'Conner, Brian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEACHES; BREAKWATERS; COASTAL ENGINEERING; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS; STORMS;

BEACH MORPHODYNAMICS; PROGRESSIVE WAVES; SEDIMENT EXCHANGES; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT PATHWAYS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT PATTERN; SHORE-PARALLEL BREAKWATERS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT CONCENTRATIONS; WAVES AND CURRENTS;

SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS;

EID: 84950315720     PISSN: 01613782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1142/9789812701916-0230     Document Type: Conference Paper

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