Open AccessTHE SHEAR STEESS OF SEA BREEZE ON A SWASH ZONE
Author(s) -
S. A. Hsu
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
proceedings of conference on coastal engineering/proceedings of ... conference on coastal engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2156-1028
pISSN - 0589-087X
DOI - 10.9753/icce.v12.15
Subject(s) - swash , geology , wind stress , shore , shear stress , wind shear , sea breeze , shear (geology) , convection , tilt (camera) , meteorology , geomorphology , atmospheric sciences , wind speed , oceanography , mechanics , geometry , petrology , geography , physics , mathematics
Measurements of shear stress under the effect of a sea hreeze were made by simultaneous wind and temperature profiles over a shore near Fort Walton Beach, Florida It was found that the sea breeze In the surface boundary layer is in the atmospheric free-convection, regime The measured shear stress coefficient is in conformity with that obtained by other investigators by the sea surface tilt method under the unstable condition For coastal applications, the result is found to be more reliable than those assumed coefficients obtained under neutral stability for this localized coastal wind system.