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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