Citation

Cowell PJ. Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 1986; 67(18): 449.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1986, American Geophysical Union)

DOI

10.1029/EO067i018p00449-01

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Large-scale rip currents (or "mega rips") driven by high-energy waves are of particular interest in two projects underway at the Coastal Studies Unit, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, with support from the Marine Sciences and Technologies Scheme of the Australian government. One of these projects is on inner continental shelf sedimentation (the Sydney Sediment Study, or SSS), and the other is on Australian shorefaces (the Australian Shoreface Program, or ASP, which commenced officially in 1986). This interest derives from the need to determine the relative contribution of processes responsible for the seaward transfer of water and sediment across the shoreface and onto the inner continental shelf. The two most important processes in this regard are mega rips and wind-generated downwelling currents, both of which become most active during storms.

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