10.3 Waves

Physical processes in a coupled bay–estuary coastal system: Whitsand Bay and Plymouth Sound

“…1b) were derived here from linear wave theory (e.g. Håkanson and Jansson, 1983;Huntley, 2013), assuming that wave heights and periodicities measured on Scylla were representative of the surrounding sea area. b s U , had a mean and SD 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 34 of 0.13 and 0.07 m s -1 over the deployment period and fastest and slowest peak speeds of 0.58 and 0.05 m s -1 .…”