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Table of contents (30 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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The NSTS Field Experiment Sites
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Measuring the Incident Wave Field
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Measuring the Nearshore Morphology
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Measuring Surf Zone Dynamics
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Measuring Sediment Dynamics
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Transport Determination by Tracers
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Data Recording
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Wind Wave Transformation
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About this book
This book represents the efforts of over a hundred individuals who planned and executed the NSTS field experiments, analyzed the billions of data points, and distilled their findings and insights into the summaries found here. Because these experiments were of a scope that will seldom, if ever, be duplicated, and because the program brought together many of the foremost field experimentalists in this country, we all felt from the beginning that it was important to preserve the outcome. This was done in two ways. First, the raw data were made available to any interested investigator within 18 months of the completion of each experiment. Secondly, both the methodology of the experiments and the findings from them were codified in the form of a monograph. This book is that result. I have had the occasion recently (Sediments '87 Proceedings, Vol. 1, pp. 642-651) to assess the NSTS performance. I found that we made giant strides in our understanding of the surf zone hydrodynamics --far more than our fondest expectations at the beginning. We were able to do less than we had hoped about the response of the sediment, largely because of a limited ability to measure it at a point. As I reported in the Sediments '87 assessment, we established a new state of the art in measurement techniques and we demonstrated the effectiveness of large, multi-investigator, instrument-intensive experiments for studying nearshore processes.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nearshore Sediment Transport
Editors: Richard J. Seymour
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2531-2
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1989
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-43157-9Published: 31 July 1989
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-2533-6Published: 22 June 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-2531-2Published: 11 November 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 418