A Time Series from the Beach Environment - II.

Abstract

Intensive sampling of beach variables was undertaken during a 30-day period in August and September, 1969, at Virginia Beach, Virginia. The purpose was to investigate the water table of a marine beach and to clarify the interaction of the water table and several process varibles of the beach-ocean-atmosphere system. This report describes the methods of measurement and tabulates the values obtained for the following variables: breaker height, breaker period, trough-to-bottom depth in front of a breaking wave, breaker steepness, breaker power, position of the limit of swash run-up, position of the outcrop of the water table on the foreshore, slope of the foreshore, water table elevations in each of 13 wells, beach elevations, barometric pressure, rainfall, and still-water leve. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1970
Accession Number
AD0719923

Entities

People

  • L. E. Fausak
  • W. Harrison

Organizations

  • Virginia Institute of Marine Science

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Atmospheres
  • Barometric Pressure
  • Biological Phenomena
  • Ecological And Environmental Phenomena
  • Elevation
  • Environment
  • Groundwater
  • Measurement
  • Natural Resources
  • Pressure Measurement
  • Rainfall
  • Sampling
  • Virginia
  • Water

Fields of Study

  • Geology

Readers

  • Climatology
  • Coastal Oceanography

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy