Rip current review

Coastal Engineering

Volumn 53, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 191-208

  MacMahan, Jamie H ^a   Thornton, Ed B ^b   Reniers, Ad J H M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Hydrodynamics; Morphodynamics; Nearshore; Rip currents

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; HYDRODYNAMICS; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MORPHOLOGY; OCEAN CURRENTS; WATER WAVES;

MORPHODYNAMICS; NEARSHORE; RIP CURRENTS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

COASTAL ZONES; HYDRODYNAMICS; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MORPHOLOGY; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; WATER WAVES;

HYDRODYNAMICS; MORPHODYNAMICS; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; RIP CURRENT; SURF ZONE;

EID: 32044445987     PISSN: 03783839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2005.10.009     Document Type: Article

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