Surf zone surface retention on a rip-channeled beach

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 114, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Reniers, A J H M ^a,b   MacMahan, J H ^d   Thornton, E B ^d   Stanton, T P ^d   Henriquez, M ^b   Brown, J W ^c   Brown, J A ^c,d   Gallagher, E ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^d NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^e FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEACHES; DOPPLER EFFECT; VELOCITY;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILERS; CROSS-SHORE VELOCITIES; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; FLOW MODEL; MODEL CALCULATIONS; OFFSHORE LOCATIONS; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; RIP CURRENTS; SURF ZONES; SURFACE FLOW; SURFACE VELOCITY; TIME-SCALES; VERTICAL ATTENUATION; VERY LOW FREQUENCY; WATER DEPTH;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; BEACH; CURRENT VELOCITY; DRIFTER; FLOATING BODY; GPS; RIP CURRENT; SURF ZONE;

EID: 72649083941     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JC005153     Document Type: Article

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