Rip Currents
eBook - ePub

Rip Currents

Beach Safety, Physical Oceanography, and Wave Modeling

  1. 310 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Rip Currents

Beach Safety, Physical Oceanography, and Wave Modeling

About this book

Rip Currents: Beach Safety, Physical Oceanography, and Wave Modeling is the culmination of research from over 100 coastal scientists, engineers, forecast meteorologists, lifeguard chiefs, and other practitioners from around the world who participated in the 1st International Rip Current Symposium. These experts identify advancements in research that will lead to a better understanding of the dynamics, mechanisms, and predictability of these dangerous currents, and lower the number of rip current drownings.

Edited by Stephen Leatherman and John Fletemeyer, the book covers:



  • The full spectrum of rip current research and outreach initiatives on all four U.S. coasts (Atlantic, Gulf, Pacific, and Great Lakes) as well as the countries of Brazil, U.K., Japan, and Australia


  • Scientific techniques used to study rip currents including field investigation and numerical modeling


  • Field research involving the use of water-based sensors, video technology, and remote sensing


  • The development of public education programs through various outreach programs and campaigns as well as an evaluation of their overall effectiveness


Rip Currents' sixteen chapters run the gamut from technical aspects of rip currents to beach safety management strategies. Whether dealing with determining rip current occurrence, hydrodynamic processes, prediction, or mitigating rip current hazards to enhance beach safety, each chapter provides a vignette that is distinct in its own right but also linked to or integrated with other chapters in the book. This comprehensive treatment presents an integrated, international perspective on a coastal process that is only now becoming better understood by the scientific community, and which has great importance to public safety on the world's beaches.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Editors
  9. Contributors
  10. Chapter 1 Future Challenges for Rip Current Research and Outreach
  11. Chapter 2 Flash Rip Currents on Ocean Shoreline of Long Island, New York
  12. Chapter 3 Rip Current Prediction at Ocean City, Maryland
  13. Chapter 4 Analysis of Rip Current Rescues at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina
  14. Chapter 5 Methodology for Prediction of Rip Currents Using a Three-Dimensional Numerical, Coupled, Wave Current Model
  15. Chapter 6 Surf Zone Hazards
  16. Chapter 7 Florida Rip Current Deaths
  17. Chapter 8 Remote Sensing Applied to Rip Current Forecasts and Identification
  18. Chapter 9 Effectiveness of Panama City Beach Safety Program
  19. Chapter 10 Meteorological Data Analysis of Rip Current Drowning
  20. Chapter 11 Rip Current Hazards at Pensacola Beach, Florida
  21. Chapter 12 Rip Currents in the Great Lakes: An Unfortunate Truth
  22. Chapter 13 Beach Safety Management in Brazil
  23. Chapter 14 Rip Current Hazards on Large-Tidal Beaches in the United Kingdom
  24. Chapter 15 Tracing Sand Movement in Strong Japanese Rip Currents
  25. Chapter 16 Rip Currents
  26. Index