Lidar Observations of the Swash Zone of a Low-Tide Terraced Tropical Beach Under Variable Wave Conditions: The Nha Trang (Vietnam) COASTVAR Experiment

A field experiment was conducted at a tropical microtidal intermediate sandy beach with a low tide terrace (Nha Trang, Vietnam) to investigate the short-term swash-zone hydrodynamics and morphodynamics under variable wave conditions. Continuous 2D Lidar scanner observations of wave height at the low...

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Main Authors: Luís Luís Pedro Almeida, Rafael Almar, Chris Blenkinsopp, Nadia Senechal, Erwin Bergsma, France Floc’h, Charles Caulet, Melanie Biausque, Patrick Marchesiello, Philippe Grandjean, Jerome Ammann, Rachid Benshila, Duong Hai Thuan, Paula Gomes da Silva, Nguyen Trung Viet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-04-01
Series:Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/8/5/302