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Dec 31, 2015
Surf Zone Resonance and Coupled Morphology
Authors: John Chappell and Lynn Donelson WrightAuthor Affiliations
Publication: Coastal Engineering 1978
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The edge wave hypothesis for periodic inshore morphology and circulation is tested for five beaches and is supported by resulting wave-current spectral and cross-spectral data. Beach types range from a reflective, narrow surf zone, case through various dissipative medium to high energy beaches including some with inshore bar-trough morphology and one broad surf zone troughless one. In all cases beachface reflectivity is moderately high (E < 2.5) and inshore resonance occurs, indicated by strong spectral peaks at lower than incident frequency with wave-current co-peaks being 90° out of phase. Several different edgewave frequency and mode combinations are indicated. The reflective beach shows an n = 0 subharmonic edgewave (i.e. at half incident wave frequency) which Guza and Davis (1974) predict as the most likely case, viz. the (0,0) triad. The troughless dissipative case shows a (1,0) edgewave triad; the same occurs in some bar-trough dissipative cases but in other cases is supplanted by the (0,0) sub-harmonic wave and/or by a lower subharmonic wave at ¼, incident frequency. The likelihood of a given edge .waveset appears to be regulated by surf friction, and a change of edge wave set appears likely to explain observed changes of inshore circulation.
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John Chappell
Department of Geography, School of General Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia.
Lynn Donelson Wright
Coastal Studies Unit, Department of Geography, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
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