Open AccessLONGSHORE CURRENT FORCING AT A BARRED BEACH
Author(s) -
D.J. Whitford,
E. B. Thornton
Publication year - 1988
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.v21.5
Subject(s) - longshore drift , bathymetry , barrier island , submarine pipeline , geology , shore , current (fluid) , tidal current , littoral zone , oceanography , forcing (mathematics) , shoal , geomorphology , sediment transport , climatology , sediment
The FRF site is located along a 100-km unbroken stretch of barrier island formation known as North Carolina's "Outer Banks." There are no littoral barriers to perturbate incoming wave trains along the entire reach of shoreline. The site has a tidal range of 0.5 to 2.0 m and regular offshore bathymetry.