Open AccessWave Energy Affects the Surf Zone Heat Budget
Author(s) -
Catherine Minnehan
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2015eo023167
Subject(s) - surf zone , energy budget , energy (signal processing) , heat wave , environmental science , meteorology , geology , geography , oceanography , physics , thermodynamics , climate change , quantum mechanics
A study of water temperature in nearshore environments shows that wave energy was the second-largest driver of temperature changes in the surf zone.