Megaripple migration in the nearshore

Seafloor morphology in the surf zone of a sandy ocean beach was measured nearly continuously for 2 months with a 1.4 X 1.4 m coherent array of 7 sonar altimeters. Migrating megaripples, seafloor bedforms with amplitudes of O(10-50 cm) and lengths of O(1-5 m), were observed in about 2 m water depth i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Walker, Angela Holcombe.
Other Authors: Edith L. Gallagher.
Language:en_US
Published: Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10945/13484