Dissipation of incident forced long waves in the surf zone-Implications for the concept of "bound" wave release at short wave breaking

Coastal Engineering

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 276-285

  Baldock, T E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bound wave release; Breaking; Long wave dissipation; Long waves; Surf beat; Surf beat similarity

Indexed keywords

BOUND WAVE RELEASE; BREAKING; BREAKPOINT; DATA SETS; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LONG WAVES; NEARSHORES; SHALLOW WATERS; SHORT WAVES; SHORT-WAVE GROUPS; SIMILARITY PARAMETER; SURF BEAT; SURF ZONES; WAVE CONDITIONS; WAVE DISPERSION;

ENERGY TRANSFER; EXPERIMENTS; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BEACH; BREAKING WAVE; OCEAN WAVE; SURF ZONE; WAVE BREAKING; WAVE DISPERSION; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE FORCE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 84855194652     PISSN: 03783839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2011.11.002     Document Type: Article

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