Application, modelling and validation of surfzone drifters

Coastal Engineering

Volumn 51, Issue 5-6, 2004, Pages 455-471

  Johnson, D ^a   Pattiaratchi, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Drifters; Global Positioning System; Instrumentation; Lagrangian data; Modelling; Surfzone

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER EFFECT; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; PARACHUTES; WAVE EFFECTS;

POSITION FIXING; ROBUST DESIGN; SURFZONE DRIFTERS; SURFZONE FLOWS;

LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; COASTAL CURRENT; DRIFTER; GPS; SURF ZONE;

EID: 12144253242     PISSN: 03783839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2004.05.005     Document Type: Article

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