Nortek User Story Featuring CZMU Wave Monitoring Programme

Diver tends ADCP current profiler mounted on sea floor

The oceanographic equipment company Nortek has featured the work done by the CZMU on its website as a user story. You can read the story via the link below:

Nortek CZMU User Story

Tags:

oceanography

wave

risk

monitoring

engineering

Glossary of Terms

Crest

Highest point on a beach face, breakwater, or seawall.

Surf

Collective term for breakers.

The wave activity in the area between the shoreline and the outermost limit of breakers.
In literature, the term surf usually refers to the breaking waves on shore and on reefs when accompanied by a roaring noise caused by the larger waves breaking.

Contamination

An anthropogenic increase in the concentration of a substance in the marine environment.

Coastal Erosion

The wearing away of coastal lands, usually by wave attack, tidal or littoral currents, or wind. Coastal erosion is synonymous with shoreline (vegetation line) retreat.

Rip Current

A strong surface current flowing seaward from the shore. It usually appears as a visible band of agitated water and is the return movement of water piled up on the shore by incoming waves and winds. With the seaward movement concentrated in a limited band its velocity is somewhat accumulated. A rip consists of three parts: the feeder currents flowing parallel to the shore inside the breakers; the neck, there the feeder currents converge and flow through the breakers in a narrow band or "rip"; and the head of rip, where the current widens and slackens outside of the breaker line. A rip current is often miscalled a rip tide.

Feeder Beach

An artificially widened beach serving to nourish downdrift beaches by natural littoral currents or forces.

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Nortek User Story Featuring CZMU Wave Monitoring Programme