Print Email Facebook Twitter A field and numerical study into rip currents in wind-sea dominated environments Title A field and numerical study into rip currents in wind-sea dominated environments Author Winter, G. Van Dongeren, A. De Schipper, M.A. Van Thiele de Vries, J.S.M. Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Hydraulic Engineering Date 2012-07-01 Abstract Rip currents are wave-induced and off-shore directed flows which occur frequently in the surf zone and can pose a serious threat to swimmers. While the behaviour of rip currents has been studied in swell-dominated environments, less is known about their characteristics in wind-sea dominated environments. This study aims to improve the knowledge on rip currents in these environments such as the Dutch coast. In a field campaign at Egmond aan Zee (The Netherlands), Lagrangian velocities in the surf zone were measured with drifter floats. An extensive dataset of rip current measurements was collected from which parameters that initiate rip currents and affect their mean flow properties were identified. Numerical simulations with XBeach aided to understand and confirm the observations made in the field. A reduction of the hydrodynamic parameters along with simplification of the bathymetry in the model allowed for identification of the governing rip current parameters, which can be the basis for a warning system. Subject rip currentsfield observationsLagrangian measurementsXBeach To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e3cb0d05-8182-4059-8d66-fc23e80bc8a2 Publisher Coastal Engineering Research Council ISSN 2156-1028 Source ICCE 2012: Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Coastal Engineering, Santander, Spain, 1-6 July 2012 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2012 The Author(s)Creative Commons BY Files PDF deSchipper_2012.pdf 4.22 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:e3cb0d05-8182-4059-8d66-fc23e80bc8a2/datastream/OBJ/view