Nearshore Circulation
Author : Falk Feddersen
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Page : 302 pages
File Size : 33,22 MB
Release : 1999
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Author : Falk Feddersen
Publisher :
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 33,22 MB
Release : 1999
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Author : R.J. Seymour
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 29,85 MB
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 1489925317
This book represents the efforts of over a hundred individuals who planned and executed the NSTS field experiments, analyzed the billions of data points, and distilled their findings and insights into the summaries found here. Because these experiments were of a scope that will seldom, if ever, be duplicated, and because the program brought together many of the foremost field experimentalists in this country, we all felt from the beginning that it was important to preserve the outcome. This was done in two ways. First, the raw data were made available to any interested investigator within 18 months of the completion of each experiment. Secondly, both the methodology of the experiments and the findings from them were codified in the form of a monograph. This book is that result. I have had the occasion recently (Sediments '87 Proceedings, Vol. 1, pp. 642-651) to assess the NSTS performance. I found that we made giant strides in our understanding of the surf zone hydrodynamics --far more than our fondest expectations at the beginning. We were able to do less than we had hoped about the response of the sediment, largely because of a limited ability to measure it at a point. As I reported in the Sediments '87 assessment, we established a new state of the art in measurement techniques and we demonstrated the effectiveness of large, multi-investigator, instrument-intensive experiments for studying nearshore processes.
Author : Choule J. Sonu
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Page : 24 pages
File Size : 34,3 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Ocean circulation
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Author : G.T. Csanady
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 18,73 MB
Release : 1982-09-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789027714008
For some time there has existed an extensive theoretical literature relating to tides on continental shelves and also to the behavior of estuaries. Much less attention was traditionally paid to the dynamics of longer term, larger scale motions (those which are usually described as circulation') over continental shelves or in enclosed shallow seas such as the North American Great Lakes. This is no longer the case: spurred on by other disciplines, notably biological oceanography, and by public concern with the environment, the physical science of the coastal ocean has made giant strides during the last two decades or so. Today, it is probably fair to say that coastal ocean physics has come of age as a deduc tive quantitative science. A well developed body of theoretical models exist, based on the equations of fluid motion, which have been related to observed currents, sea level variations, water properties, etc. Quantitative parameters required in using the models to predict e.g. the effects of wind or of freshwater influx on coastal currents can be estimated within reasonable bounds of error. While much remains to be learned, and many exciting discoveries presumably await us in the future, the time seems appropriate to summarize those aspects of coastal ocean dynamics relevant to 'circulation' or long term motion.
Author : Edward K. Noda
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Page : 236 pages
File Size : 15,87 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Beaches
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Author : Ib A. Svendsen
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 41,40 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9812561420
This book is intended as an introductory textbook for graduate students and as a reference book for engineers and scientists working in the field of coastal engineering. As such it gives a description of the theories for wave and nearshore hydrodynamics. It is meant to de-mystify the topics and hence starts at a fairly basic level. It requires knowledge of fluid mechanics equivalent to a first year graduate level. At the end of each topic, an attempt is made to give an overview of the present stage of the scientific development in that area with numerous references for further studies.
Author : James Ian Collins
Publisher :
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 39,32 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Sediment transport
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Page : 944 pages
File Size : 31,21 MB
Release : 1968
Category : High pressure (Science)
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Author : Coastal Engineering Research Center (U.S.)
Publisher :
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 10,51 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Coasts
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Author : Robert G. Dean
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 30,13 MB
Release : 2004-03-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780521602754
Text on coastal engineering and oceanography covering theory and applications intended to mitigate shoreline erosion.