Rip currents beach safety, physical oceanography, and wave modeling
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| Other Authors | , |
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| Format | eBook |
| Language | English |
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Boca Raton, Fla. :
CRC Press,
2011.
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| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 9781439838976 |
| Physical Description | xv, 277 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.). |
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Table of Contents:
- ch. 1. Future challenges for rip current research and outreach / Robert W. Brander and Jamie H. MacMahan
- ch. 2. Flash rip currents on ocean shoreline of Long Island, New York / Michael P. Slattery, Henry Bokuniewicz, and Paul Gayes
- ch. 3. Rip current prediction at Ocean City, Maryland / Varjola Nelko and Robert A. Dalrymple
- ch. 4. Analysis of rip current rescues at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina / Gregory Dusek ... [et al.]
- ch. 5. Methodology for prediction of rip currents using a three-dimensional numerical, coupled, wave current model / George Voulgaris, Nirnimesh Kumar, and John C. Warner
- ch. 6. Surf zone hazards : rip currents and waves / Robert G. Dean and R.J. Thieke
- ch. 7. Florida rip current deaths : forecasts and statistics / James B. Lushine
- ch. 8. Remote sensing applied to rip current forecasts and identification / Brian K. Haus
- ch. 9. Effectiveness of Panama City beach safety program / John R. Fletemeyer
- ch. 10. Meterological data analysis of rip current drowning / Charles H. Paxton
- ch. 11. Rip current hazards at Pensacola Beach, Florida / Chris Houser, Nicole Caldwell, and Klaus Meyer-Arendt
- ch. 12. Rip currents in the Great Lakes : an unfortunate truth / Guy Meadows ... [et al.]
- ch. 13. Beach safety management in Brazil / Lauro J. Calliari ... [et al.]
- ch. 14. Rip current hazards on large-tidal beaches in the United Kingdom / Timothy M. Scott ... [et al.]
- ch. 15. Tracing sand movement in strong Japanese rip currents / Nicholas C. Kraus
- ch. 16. Rip currents : terminology and pro-active beach safety / Stephen P. Leatherman.