Low-Energy Rip Currents Associated With Small Bathymetric Variations

Marine Geology

Volumn 255, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 156-164

  MacMahan, Jamie H ^a   Thornton, Ed B ^a   Reniers, Ad J H M ^b,c   Stanton, Tim P ^a   Symonds, Graham ^d  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

circulation; morphodynamics; nearshore; non uniformity; rip currents; surf zone

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION; MORPHODYNAMICS; NEARSHORE; NON-UNIFORMITY; RIP CURRENTS; SURF ZONE;

WATER WAVE EFFECTS;

BATHYMETRY;

BATHYMETRY; MORPHODYNAMICS; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL METHOD; OCEAN TIDE; RIP CURRENT; SURF ZONE;

EID: 56049126162     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2008.08.006     Document Type: Article

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