Rip-current pulses tied to Lagrangian coherent structures

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Reniers, A J H M ^a,b   MacMahan, J H ^c   Beron Vera, F J ^a   Olascoaga, M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THREE DIMENSIONAL; VELOCITY;

EXCHANGE MECHANISM; FLOATING MATERIALS; LAGRANGIAN COHERENT STRUCTURES; RIP CURRENTS; SURF ZONES; SURFACE VELOCITY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL MODELS; VERY LOW FREQUENCY;

LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RIP CURRENT; SURF ZONE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRAPPED WAVE;

EID: 79960174200     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041443     Document Type: Article

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