Nearshore zone where wave water comes onto the shore
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Schematic representation of the shoreface profile
As ocean surface waves approach shore, they get taller and break, forming the foamy, bubbly surface called surf. The region of breaking waves defines the surf zone, or breaker zone. After breaking in the surf zone, the waves (now reduced in height) continue to move in, and they run up onto the sloping front of the beach, forming an uprush of water called swash. The water then runs back again as backwash. The nearshore zone where wave water comes onto the beach is the surf zone. The water in the surf zone is shallow, usually between 5 and 10 m (16 and 33 ft) deep; this causes the waves to be unstable.
bubbly surface called surf. The region of breaking waves defines the surfzone, or breaker zone. After breaking in the surfzone, the waves (now reduced...
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Surf fishing is land-based game fishing while standing on the shoreline or wading into the surfzone. A general term, surf fishing may or may not include...
Surf culture includes the people, language, fashion, and lifestyle surrounding the sport of surfing. The history of surfing began with the ancient Polynesians...
SUP surfing is a variation of traditional surfing. Instead of lying prone on the surfboard and paddling with arms to get out to the surfzone, SUP surfing...
Surf kayaking has many similarities to surf board surfing, but with boats designed for use in surfzones, and with a paddle. A number of kayak designs are...
near the coastal surfzone. Besides a spatial variation in the (mean) wave setup, also a variation in time may be present – known as surf beat – causing...
intertidal zone and dissipate force progressively along wide surfzones. Dissipative beaches are wide and flat in profile, with a wide shoaling and surfzone, composed...
and surf conditions, and provide limited assistance in local security and beach defense. They have the capability to provide beach and surfzone salvage...
Adults are gregarious and are found over soft bottoms mainly beyond the surfzone, occasionally going inshore. Juveniles are exclusively found in shallow...
swash zone is the upper part of the beach between backbeach and surfzone, where intense erosion occurs during storms (Figure 2). The swash zone is alternately...
or foaming agents. As the seawater is churned by breaking waves in the surfzone adjacent to the shore, the surfactants under these turbulent conditions...
more pronounced in the winter hemisphere where this region is called the surfzone. This breaking is caused due to a highly non-linear interaction between...
longshore current. This current and sediment movement occur within the surfzone. The process is also known as littoral drift. Beach sand is also moved...
"sprinkle over". Similarly to spits, peresyps are formed by actions of surfzone currents from sand, gravel/pebbles, and crushed shells as a result of...
Carolina. Atlantic surf clams live buried in coarse or fine sand. They live offshore as well as in the low intertidal and surfzones. Surf clams can take...
but it was anchored by beds of seagrass that extended almost up to the surfzone. In, or shortly after, 1960, the sea grass disappeared, and the bottom...
A surfski (or: "surf ski", "surf-ski") is a type of kayak in the kayaking "family" of paddling craft. It is generally the longest of all kayaks and is...
this species is rare in estuaries and in the surfzone east of Cape Agulhas but is common in the surfzone in the cooler waters along the Atlantic coast...
beaches and in shallow bays. This species travels in small groups along the surfzone in a few inches of water to depths of 20 meters (66 ft). Other names include...
confined to shallow burrows on exposed shores. Turbulent flows in the surfzone also create a transport of gametes. Hydrodynamic conditions and gamete...
Acanthochitona armata is a chiton of the surfzone endemic to Hawaiʻi. Acanthochitona armata grows to about one inch in length and is colored green, gray...
international waves, surfzones and surrounding environments, protecting them from the threat of development. The idea to protect surf spots originally came...
boat known as an IBS, and must paddle out from the shore, through the surfzone, and back again. Candidates participate in weekly 4-mile (6.4 km) timed...
Ocean and Caribbean Sea. It is a small slow-moving fish, living in the surfzone of sandy or muddy beaches. Here it is easily caught as bycatch by shrimp...
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