Salt marsh surface survives true-to-scale simulated storm surges

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 543-552

  Spencer, T ^a   Moller I ^a,b   Rupprecht, F ^c   Bouma, T J ^d   van Wesenbeeck, B K ^e,f   Kudella, M ^g   Paul, M ^g   Jensen, K ^c   Wolters, G ^e   Miranda Lange, M ^g   Schimmels, S ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b FITZWILLIAM COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^e DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^f DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^g Forschungszentrum Küste ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Coastal wetland; Surface elevation change; Wave energy dissipation; Wave flume experiment; Wetland soil stability

Indexed keywords

ENERGY DISSIPATION; FLOODS; SALT REMOVAL; SOILS; STORMS; WATER WAVES; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

COASTAL WETLANDS; SURFACE ELEVATION CHANGES; WAVE ENERGY DISSIPATION; WAVE FLUMES; WETLAND SOILS;

WETLANDS;

COASTAL WETLAND; FLUME EXPERIMENT; SALTMARSH; SOIL STABILIZATION; STORM SURGE; WATER DEPTH; WAVE ENERGY; WETLAND;

ATRIPLEX; ELYMUS; HYMENACHNE; PUCCINELLIA;

EID: 84952684964     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.3867     Document Type: Article

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