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setup: a standalone construct

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setup1 CONSTRUCTWave set-upLONGUET-HIGGINS · SETUP

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Coastal oceanography

Breaking waves pile water up against the shore

In coastal oceanography, wave set-up is the raised mean water level near the shoreline caused by breaking waves: as waves break and lose momentum, the excess momentum flux they carry (the radiation stress) is passed to the water column, tilting the mean surface upward toward the beach. Longuet-Higgins and Stewart's 1964 Radiation stresses in water waves; a physical discussion, with applications derived set-up from radiation stress, and Svendsen's 1984 Wave heights and set-up in a surf zone worked out its cross-shore profile. The referent is a change in mean sea level, measured in centimetres to tens of centimetres and important for coastal flooding, with nothing to do with the opening of a joke.[1][2]

Unit
The rise in mean water level at the shore, in centimetres
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Measured as the elevation of mean water level above still-water level across the surf zone, driven by breaking-wave radiation stress

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References

  1. Longuet-Higgins, M. S., & Stewart, R. W. (1964). Radiation stresses in water waves; a physical discussion, with applications. Deep-Sea Research and Oceanographic Abstracts, 11(4), 529–562. https://doi.org/10.1016/0011-7471(64)90001-4
  2. Svendsen, I. A. (1984). Wave heights and set-up in a surf zone. Coastal Engineering, 8(4), 303–329. https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-3839(84)90028-0

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