Nearshore Wave-topography Interactions
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چکیده
The principal focus of this program has been on understanding the nearshore problem from a top down point of view. At time scales longer than storm periods and length scales larger than 100 meters, the behavior of the nearshore appears surprisingly complex, with subtantial interannual variability and variability on all scales. We believe that this results from feedback between the fluid and bathymetric components of the system and that the coupled problem represents a nonlinear dynamical system whose phenomenology arises more from robust aspects of the feedback than from details of the various processes.
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