Hydrodynamics of a bathymetrically complex fringing coral reef embayment: Wave climate, in situ observations, and wave prediction

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Hoeke, Ron ^a,b,c   Storlazzi, Curt ^d   Ridd, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b PACIFIC ISLANDS FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; COASTAL ENGINEERING; COMMERCE; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION; WAVE POWER;

CIRCULATION PATTERNS; CORAL REEF; CURRENT VELOCITY; DISTANT SOURCE; DRIVE CURRENTS; ENERGY MODES; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; HINDCASTS; IN-SITU DATA; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; INCIDENT WAVES; LOW LATITUDES; NEAR-SHORE WAVES; NEARSHORE WAVE ENERGY; NEARSHORES; OFFSHORE WAVES; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PREDICTION QUALITY; REFRACTION PATTERNS; SEDIMENT DYNAMIC; TRADE WINDS; WAVE CLIMATES; WAVE CONDITIONS; WAVE MODELS; WAVE PREDICTIONS;

REEFS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BATHYMETRIC SURVEY; CORAL REEF; CURRENT VELOCITY; EPISODIC EVENT; FRINGING REEF; HINDCASTING; HYDRODYNAMICS; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; SWELL; TRADE WIND; WAVE CLIMATE; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE PROPAGATION;

HANALEI BAY; HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; KAUAI; UNITED STATES;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 79955405183     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JC006170     Document Type: Article

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