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Creator:: Hill, D. F., Bruhis, N., Calos, S. E., Arendt, A., and Beamer, J.
Abstract:: A study of the freshwater discharge into the Gulf of Alaska (GOA) has been carried out. Using available streamgage data, regression equations were developed for monthly flows. These equations express discharge as a function of basin physical characteristics such as area, mean elevation, and land cover, and of basin meteorological...
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Full Text:: Engineering and Applied Science, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, 4Geophysical

Creator:: Cheng, T. K., Hill, D. F., Beamer, J., and García-Medina, G.
Abstract:: Total water levels (TWLs) within estuaries are influenced by tides, wind, offshore waves, and streamflow, all of which are uniquely affected by climate change. The magnitude of TWL associated with various return periods is relevant to understanding how the hydrodynamics of a bay or estuary may evolve under distinct climate...
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Full Text:: Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA, 2Water Resources Engineering, Oregon State

Creator:: Catalán, Patricio A., Haller, Merrick C., and Plant, William J.
Abstract:: The microwave backscatter properties of surf zone waves are analyzed using field observations. By utilizing a preexisting, independent, water surface discrimination technique, the microwave returns were extracted along individual waveforms and the data from shoaling (steepening) waves, surf zone breaking waves, and remnant foam were separated and quantified. In addition,...
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Full Text:: & Ocean Engineering Program, School of Civil and Construction Engineering, Oregon State University

Creator:: Lowe, Ryan J., Leon, Arturo S., Symonds, Graham, Falter, James L., and Gruber, Renee
Abstract:: A 2 week field experiment investigated the hydrodynamics of a strongly tidally forced tropical intertidal reef platform in the Kimberley region of northwestern Australia, where the spring tidal range exceeds 8 m. At this site, the flat and wide (∼1.4 km) reef platform is located slightly above mean sea level,...
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Full Text:: , Australia, 5School of Civil and Construction Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA

Creator:: Haller, Merrick C. and Catalán, P. A.
Abstract:: The optical intensity signals from surf zone waves in a laboratory flume are analyzed using several different phase‐averaging techniques, and a methodology is developed for estimating wave roller lengths and local wave dissipation. The intensity signals (i.e., phase‐averaged intensity profiles) of individual breaking waves are compared with the wave profiles...
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Full Text:: , C07022, doi:10.1029/2008JC005185, 2009 Click Here for Full Article 1Coastal and Ocean Engineering

Creator:: Mahrt, Larry, Vickers, Dean, Howell, Jim, Hojstrup, Jorgen, Wilczak, James M., Edson, Jim, and Hare, Jeffrey
Abstract:: This study examines the dependence of the computed drag coefficient on wind speed, stability, fetch, flux sampling problems, and method of calculation of the drag coefficient. The analysis is applied to data collected at a tower 2 km off the coast of Denmark during the Risø Air Sea Experiment (RASEX)....
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Full Text:: problems, and method of calculation of the drag coefficient. The analysis is applied to data collected at

Creator:: Newberger, P. A. and Allen, John S.
Abstract:: A three‐dimensional primitive‐equation model for application to the nearshore surf zone has been developed. This model, an extension of the Princeton Ocean Model (POM), predicts the wave‐averaged circulation forced by breaking waves. All of the features of the original POM are retained in the extended model so that applications can...
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Full Text:: NearCom community model and is coupled with a wave model. This combined modeling system is applied to the

Creator:: Antolínez, José Antonio A., Méndez, Fernando J., Camus, Paula, Vitousek, Sean, González, E. Mauricio, Ruggiero, Peter, and Barnard, Patrick
Abstract:: Interest in understanding long-term coastal morphodynamics has recently increased as climate change impacts become perceptible and accelerated. Multiscale, behavior-oriented and process-based models, or hybrids of the two, are typically applied with deterministic approaches which require considerable computational effort. In order to reduce the computational cost of modeling large spatial and...
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Creator:: Wilson, Greg W., Özkan-Haller, H. Tuba, and Holman, Robert A.
Abstract:: We investigate the momentum balance in the surf zone, in a setting which is weakly varying in the alongshore direction. Our focus is on the role of nonlinear advective terms. Using numerical experiments, we find that advection tends to counteract alongshore variations in momentum flux, resulting in more uniform kinematics....
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Full Text:: transfer function applied to the solution to the linear (advection-free) equations of motion. The transfer

Creator:: Chelton, Dudley B. and Schlax, Michael C.
Abstract:: A formalism is presented for quantifying the sampling error of an arbitrary linear estimate of a time-averaged quantity constructed from a time series of irregularly spaced observations at a fixed location. The method is applicable to any irregularly sampled time series; it is applied here to satellite observations of chlorophyll...
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Full Text:: applied here to satellite observations of chlorophyll from the coastal zone color scanner (CZCS). The two

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