Research Summaries

Back Rip Current Dynamics in a Complex Beach Environment

Fiscal Year 2008
Division Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Science
Department Oceanography
Investigator(s) MacMahan, James H.
Stanton, Timothy P.
Sponsor National Science Foundation (NSF)
Summary The proposed effort is to collaboratively examine through observations and advance numerical modeling the three-dimensional velocity field in rip current systems on a strongly-forced complex natural sandy beach at temporal and spatial scales including turbulent, incident wave band, infragravity, very-low frequency and mean currents.
Keywords Rip Currents Morphology Hydrodynamics Surf Zone Littoral Modeling Drifters Surf Zone
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