Quantifying Wave Breaking Shape and Suspended Sediment in the Surf Zone

Abstract

This technical report describes a field experiment conducted from 18 November 2016 to 26 October 2017 at the Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, Field Research Facility, as part of a 6.1 Military Engineering Basic Research Project titled New Field Measurements and Parameterizations to Predict Wave Breaking Shape from Environmental Forcing. This report provides an overview of the project, presents the motivation and goals of the project, describes the suite of instrumentation and experimental procedure, documents the field data collection effort, and catalogs the raw data products.

Open PDF

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2019
Accession Number
AD1088847

Entities

People

  • A. Spicer Bak
  • Katherine Brodie
  • Nicholas J. Spore
  • Patrick J. Dickhudt

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Continental Shelves
  • Data Analysis
  • Engineering
  • Global Navigation Satellite Systems
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Inertial Navigation
  • Inertial Navigation Systems
  • Instrumentation
  • Measurement
  • Measuring Instruments
  • Military Engineering
  • Navigation
  • Research Facilities
  • Sediments
  • Suspended Sediments
  • Three Dimensional
  • Transducers

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Business Analytics
  • Coastal Oceanography
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.