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wave-driven longshore current: a standalone construct

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Coastal engineering

alongshore current in the surf zone driven by the gradient of radiation stress from obliquely breaking waves.

In coastal engineering, wave-driven longshore current refers to alongshore current in the surf zone driven by the gradient of radiation stress from obliquely breaking waves. This meaning comes from Longuet-Higgins (1970) in Journal of Geophysical Research.[1]

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References

Longuet-Higgins, M. S. (1970). Longshore currents generated by obliquely incident sea waves: 1. Journal of Geophysical Research, 75(33), 6778-6789. https://doi.org/10.1029/jc075i033p06778

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