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Field Observation of Nearshore Circulation and Meandering Currents

C. J. Sonu

Field observations were made of wave-induced nearshore circulations and meandering longshore currents on an undulatory surf-zone bed, under the action of uniform incident waves. Circulations were associated with normal-wave incidence; meandering currents were associated with oblique-wave incidence. The transport in the observed circulations generally agreed with Bowen's (1967) linear theory based on the concept of radiation stress (longuet-Higgins and Stewart, 1962, 1964), provided that a friction coefficient C = 0.014 was assumed. (Author)

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Field Observation of Nearshore Circulation and Meandering Currents

C. J. Sonu

Field observations were made of wave-induced nearshore circulations and meandering longshore currents on an undulatory surf-zone bed, under the action of uniform incident waves. Circulations were associated with normal-wave incidence; meandering currents were associated with oblique-wave incidence. The transport in the observed circulations generally agreed with Bowen's (1967) linear theory based on the concept of radiation stress (longuet-Higgins and Stewart, 1962, 1964), provided that a friction coefficient C = 0.014 was assumed. (Author)

Field Observation of Nearshore Circulation and Meandering Currents

C. J. Sonu

Field observations were made of wave-induced nearshore circulations and meandering longshore currents on an undulatory surf-zone bed, under the action of uniform incident waves. Circulations were associated with normal-wave incidence; meandering currents were associated with oblique-wave incidence. The transport in the observed circulations generally agreed with Bowen's (1967) linear theory based on the concept of radiation stress (longuet-Higgins and Stewart, 1962, 1964), provided that a friction coefficient C = 0.014 was assumed. (Author)

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Title:

Field Observation of Nearshore Circulation and Meandering Currents

Contributors:

C. J. Sonu (author)

Publication date:

1972

Size:

16 pages

Type of media:

Report

Type of material:

No indication

Language:

English

Keywords:

Dynamic Oceanography , Ocean currents , Seacoast , Beaches , Transport properties , Ocean waves , Ocean bottom topography , Tides , Refraction , Energy , Dyes , Mathematical analysis , Reprints , Longshore currents , Meandering currents

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