Accession Number:

ADA326971

Title:

The CERCular, Coastal Engineering Research Center, Volume CERC-97-2.

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

COASTAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTER VICKSBURG MS

Personal Author(s):

Report Date:

1997-04-01

Pagination or Media Count:

12.0

Abstract:

With the arrival of researchers from the Center for Coastal Studies at Scripps Institution of Oceanography SIO, La Jolla, CA, in June 1997, the U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station WES, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory CHL, Field Research Facility FRF, Duck, NC, will begin hosting SandyDuck 97, an ambitious nearshore field experiment that has been 7 years in the making. This early start was required to ensure that the over 400 sensors being deployed will be installed and operational by the time the 6-week measurement period begins 22 September 1997.

Descriptors:

• *SEDIMENT TRANSPORT
• *COASTAL ENGINEERING
• COASTAL REGIONS
• INSHORE AREAS
• FIELD TESTS
• RESEARCH FACILITIES
• GEOMORPHOLOGY
• HYDRAULICS
• HYDRODYNAMICS

Subject Categories:

• Physical and Dynamic Oceanography

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE