Rip currents

DOI10.1146/ANNUREV-FLUID-122109-160733MaRDI QIDQ5393410zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors R. A. Dalrymple, Jamie H. MacMahan, Ad J. H. M. Reniers, Varjola Nelko

Publication date 18 April 2011

Published in Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-fluid-122109-160733

zbMATH Keywords

beachcirculationdrowningsinstabilitieslifeguardsnatural hazardsnearshoreshear wavessurf zone

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-02) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05)

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