Processes governing rip spacing, persistence, and strength in a swell dominated, microtidal environment

Coastal Engineering 2000 - Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Coastal Engineering, ICCE 2000

Volumn 276, Issue , 2000, Pages 454-467

  Ranasinghe, Roshanka ^a   Symonds, Graham ^b   Black, Kerry ^c   Holman, Rob ^d  

^a NSW Department of Land and Water Conservation   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDRODYNAMIC MODEL; INCIDENT WAVES; LONGSHORE CURRENTS; LONGSHORE SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; MODEL RESULTS; NORMAL WAVES; RIP CHANNELS; SYDNEY , AUSTRALIA; TIDE LEVELS; VIDEO IMAGE; WAVE HEIGHTS;

COASTAL ENGINEERING; FLUID DYNAMICS; LOCATION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; WATER WAVES;

BEACHES;

EID: 70349389526     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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