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  • Extreme Wave Runup and Runup Variability on Beaches

    Creator:
    Li, Chuan
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    Wave runup is an important physical process that affects nearshore sediment transport, coastal erosion, and flooding. Large and unexpected runup events can also be dangerous to beach goers. Extreme runup statistics are essential parameters used in engineering design of marine structures and in coastal management. Although the study of runup...
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    . Tuba Özkan-Haller (also Chapters 3 and 4), Gabriel Garca-Medina (also Chapter 3), Robert A. Holman

  • Optimizing map projection selection for world maps and web maps

    Creator:
    Šavrič, Bojan
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    The selection process for map projections is a mystery to many mapmakers and GIS users. Map projections ought to be selected based on the map’s geographic extent and the required distortion properties, with the goal of minimizing the distortion of the mapped area. Despite some available selection guidelines, the selection...
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     Dr.   Robert  Holman   for   their   service   in  my   doctoral   committee

  • Data assimilation for prediction of shallow water flows with uncertain bathymetry

    Creator:
    Wilson, Gregory W.
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    A new method is introduced for incorporating bathymetric uncertainty into predictions of nearshore and river flows (i.e., unstratified flows primarily forced by pressure and radiation stress gradients). The method involves the use of the ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) as a parameter estimation scheme, where the parameter to be estimated is...
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    dissertation include Robert A. Holman as a co-author. Dr. Holman’s contribution included advice on the design

  • Numerical model investigations of wind-driven coastal circulation

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    Cervantes, Brandy T.
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    The effects of wind forcing on coastal ocean circulation are studied using a numerical modeling approach. The first region of interest is on the North Carolina shelf, where the Coastal Ocean Processes (CoOP) Inner Shelf Study (ISS) took place during August - November 1994. ISS observations are used to initialize,...
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    committee John A. Barth, Robert N. Miller, Roger Samelson, Rob Holman, and the graduate representative Todd

  • From the Shoreface to the Foredunes : Coastal Morphodynamics Across the Land-Sea Interface

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    Cohn, Nicholas T.
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    Coastal flooding and erosion are major concerns for low lying coastal communities -- particularly in light of accelerated sea level rise and climate change. To improve quantitative understanding of the physical drivers of both flooding and coastal landscape change, this dissertation explores coastal morphodynamics bridging the land-sea interface on modally...
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    investigated at a dissipative system in Oysterville, WA, with the primary goal of relating seasonal scale

  • Wave-current interaction induced by standing long waves in the surf zone

    Creator:
    Phaksopa, Jitraporn
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    This dissertation has focused on the charateristics of bubbles generated by breaking waves and the feedback of wave-current interaction on the forcing mechanism of low frequency wave especially basin seiching wave. For the first study, Optical image capture observations of breaking waves in a laboratory surf zone are presented. The...
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    my dissertation. I also appreciate the other committee members, Prof. Robert Holman, Prof. Harry Yeh

  • Longshore grain sorting and beach-placer formation adjacent to the Columbia River

    Creator:
    Li, Zhenlin
    Abstract:
    The formation of beach placers primarily involves processes of waves and currents that selectively sort and concentrate the valuable minerals according to their densities, sizes and shapes. Black sand placers are found on the beaches adjacent to the mouth of the Columbia River. Reviews of historical shoreline changes show that...
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  • Modeling shallow-water hydrodynamics : rotations, rips, and rivers

    Creator:
    Long, Joseph W.
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    Hydrodynamic models are used as a diagnostic tool to understand the temporal variability of shallow-water processes that are difficult to completely resolve with traditional field measurements. For all simulations, modeled quantities are qualitatively or quantitatively compared with available measurements to gain confidence in conclusions derived from the modeled results. In...
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    Hydrodynamic models are used as a diagnostic tool to understand the temporal variability of shallow-water

  • Microwave scattering from surf zone waves

    Creator:
    Catalán Mondaca, Patricio A.
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    Wave breaking in the surf zone is an important forcing mechanism on the generation of nearshore currents and in the driving of sediment transport. At the same time, wave breaking can have significant spatial and temporal variability that needs to be accounted for in the description of nearshore processes. Remote...
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    Holman and Stanley , 2007, for a review). The video MTF is related with the variations in brightness

  • Update programming -- a safe approach to software maintenance

    Creator:
    Ren, Deling
    Abstract:
    Software maintenance accounts for a large portion of the software development cost, particularly the process of updating programs either to adapt for requirement change or to enhance design or efficiency. Currently, program updates are generally performed manually by programmers using text editors. This is an unreliable method because syntax and...
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