Land loss by pond expansion on the Mississippi River Delta Plain

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 3635-3642

  Ortiz, Alejandra C ^a,b   Roy, Samapriya ^a   Edmonds, Douglas A ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Landsat; Mississippi River Delta Plain; pond expansion; wind driven wave edge erosion

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; EROSION; EXPANSION; LANDFORMS; PONDS; RIVERS; SEA LEVEL; WETLANDS;

COMBINED EFFECT; LANDSAT; MISSISSIPPI DELTA; MISSISSIPPI RIVER; SEDIMENT SUPPLY; WIND DIRECTIONS; WIND GENERATED WAVES; WIND-DRIVEN WAVES;

LAKES;

COLLAPSE; EDGE WAVE; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT; POND; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TRACKING; WIND DIRECTION; WIND EROSION;

ATCHAFALAYA BASIN; BARATARIA BASIN; LOUISIANA; MINNESOTA; MISSISSIPPI DELTA; TERREBONNE BASIN; UNITED STATES; VERMILLION RIVER;

EID: 85018805702     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2017GL073079     Document Type: Article

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