Sentence examples for shore currents from inspiring English sources

It is isolated from the Pacific by the Kaitorete Spit, a gravel formation created by materials eroded from the Canterbury Plain and carried north by shore currents.

There, shore currents carried the sand to the northwest and deposited the sediments in long dunelike ridges along the coast.

The model results of the tidal level along shore and cross shore currents are agreed well with measured data in Kanyakumari coast.

There is lesser marine activity in the Vedaranyam shore due to the presence of Vedaranyam nose in the north and Sri Lanka in the south, both causing weak shore currents.

A modeling investigation of the breaking wave roller with application to cross-shore currents.

A bar separates this lake from the Arabian Sea which is usually opened during monsoon to prevent upstream flooding and inundation, and a new bar is naturally created by the long-shore currents after the monsoon.

Along-shore currents with the coast on the right strengthened in every line simultaneously with the domination of the southerly wind, and then weakened in order from south to north simultaneously with weakening of the southerly wind.

Although the along-shore currents of the CTWs linearly decreased heading offshore along the south and middle lines, these currents broadened within about 50 km from the coast along the north line, with small variations in the cross-shelf direction, with an increase in shelf width.

The numerical model is firstly tested by the experiment results for coastal waves, near-shore currents, sediment transport and beach morphological evolution around breakwater from the Large-scale Sediment Transport Facility at the US Army Corps of Engineer Research and Development Center (Gravens and Wang, 2007).

Spatial correlations are expected to be stronger in the east west direction than in the north south direction due to along-shore currents.

The model consists of sub-modules to calculate waves, mean water elevation, long-shore current, cross-shore transport, long-shore transport, swash zone transport, and beach change.