A new coastal ocean observing station has been established for the west Florida shelf, off Eglin Air Force Base, with an upward looking ADCP deployed at the approximate 11 m isobath for measuring the coastal currents, waves and tide. Hourly processed data were communicated to the WAVCIS station, through secured cellular communication. Vertical profiles of current speed and direction were continuously monitored until summer 2008. Also, directional wave spectra, bulk ...
We developed a realistic test case for morphodynamic predictions of short-term bathymetry evolution associated with quasisteady rip currents. Assuming stationary forcing, predictions made by the coupled wave-hydrodynamic-morphodynamic model Delft3D are compared with surf zone morphological change inferred from quarterly in-situ bathymetric surveys. The model gives plausible twodimensional hydrodynamic predictions with offshore currents being strongest in the rip channels. When the default wave-induced bedload transport is included the model predicts accretion ...
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