Effects of wave averaging on estimates of fluid mixing in the surf zone

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Geiman, J D ^a   Kirby, J T ^a   Reniers, A J H M ^b   MacMahan, J H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; DISPERSION (WAVES); FORECASTING; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; LYAPUNOV METHODS; VORTICITY;

AVERAGED MODELS; BOUSSINESQ; CURRENT FIELDS; DIFFUSIVITIES; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; FINITE-SIZE LYAPUNOV EXPONENTS; FLUID MIXING; FORCING TERMS; HIGH FREQUENCY; IRROTATIONAL; LAGRANGIAN METHODS; LAGRANGIAN STOCHASTIC MODELS; LENGTH SCALE; LOW FREQUENCY; MEAN CURRENTS; MIXING BEHAVIORS; MODEL RESULTS; NEARSHORES; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; RIP CURRENTS; SHORT WAVES; SUB-GRIDS; SURF ZONES; SURFACE DRIFTER; SURFACE GRAVITY WAVES; TEMPORAL SCALE; VIRTUAL TRAJECTORY; VORTICITY DISTRIBUTION; WAVEBREAKING;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

BATHYMETRY; BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GPS; GRAVITY WAVE; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MIXING; NEARSHORE ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SURF ZONE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VORTICITY;

EID: 79954500200     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JC006678     Document Type: Article

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