Estimating nearshore bedform amplitudes with altimeters

dc.contributor.author Gallagher, E. L.
dc.contributor.author Elgar, Steve
dc.contributor.author Guza, R. T.
dc.contributor.author Thornton, Ed B.
dc.date.accessioned 2006-01-19T18:29:31Z
dc.date.available 2006-01-19T18:29:31Z
dc.date.issued 2005-01-14
dc.description Author Posting. © The Authors, 2005. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Elsevier B. V. for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Marine Geology 216 (2005): 51-57, doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2005.01.005.
dc.description.abstract Estimates of the heights of large (0.1-0.4 m heights and 1-10 m horizontal lengths) migrating bedforms on a sandy beach made with fixed, single-point altimeters are similar to heights estimated from profiles across the bedforms made with altimeters mounted on an amphibious vehicle that traversed the surf zone. Unlike many profiling systems, the robust, fixed altimeters can measure bedforms in bubbly, sediment-laden surfzone waters nearly continuously, including during storms, thus allowing investigation of the relationships between bedform heights and near-bottom velocities to be extended to a wide range of wave conditions. The fixed-altimeter observations of migrating bedforms suggest a sandy surfzone seafloor is not always smooth during energetic conditions with strong mean currents and large wave-orbital velocities. en
dc.description.sponsorship Funding was provided by the Office of Naval Research, the Army Research Office, the National Research Council, and the National Science Foundation. en
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dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/1912/423
dc.language.iso en_US en
dc.relation.uri https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2005.01.005
dc.subject Nearshore en
dc.subject Bed roughness en
dc.subject Megaripples en
dc.subject Sonar altimeters en
dc.title Estimating nearshore bedform amplitudes with altimeters en
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