Changes in the wind-wave field and related salt-marsh lateral erosion: inferences from the evolution of the Venice Lagoon in the last four centuries

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2019, Pages 1633-1646

  Tommasini, Laura ^a   Carniello, Luca ^a   Ghinassi, Massimiliano ^a   Roner, Marcella ^a   D'Alpaos, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

erosion; salt marsh; Venice Lagoon; wind wave power density

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; EROSION; FEEDBACK; LAKES; WAVE POWER;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS; ANTHROPOGENIC PRESSURES; ENVIRONMENTAL FORCING; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; POWER DENSITIES; SALT MARSHES; VENICE LAGOON;

WETLANDS;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; COASTAL EVOLUTION; COASTAL LAGOON; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EROSION RATE; MORPHODYNAMICS; SALTMARSH; TIDAL MODELING; WAVE FIELD; WIND WAVE;

EID: 85063788667     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.4599     Document Type: Conference Paper

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