{"id":225,"date":"2023-08-02T14:42:35","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T14:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/ripcurrents\/?page_id=225"},"modified":"2023-09-01T11:59:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T11:59:09","slug":"beach-type-and-sandbars","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/ripcurrents\/key-points\/beach-type-and-sandbars\/","title":{"rendered":"Beach type and sandbars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Sandbars control the shape and location of beach rip currents.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Beach channel rip currents are most active on <em>intermediate<\/em> beaches with sandbars.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Sandbar types change seasonally with the changing wave climate.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Summer (low swell-wave) type sandbars are dominated by beach rip circulation.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Winter (high storm-wave) type sandbars are dominated by longshore currents.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Bar\/rip morphology is most pronounced at low water; therefore beach rip currents are often at their most active and hazardous at low water (particularly MLW).<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sandbars control the shape and location of beach rip currents. Beach channel rip currents are most active on intermediate beaches with sandbars. Sandbar types change seasonally with the changing wave climate. Summer (low swell-wave) type sandbars are dominated by beach rip circulation. Winter (high storm-wave) type sandbars are dominated by longshore currents. Bar\/rip morphology is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":0,"parent":218,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-225","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/ripcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/ripcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/ripcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/ripcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/ripcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/ripcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/ripcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/225\/revisions\/348"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/ripcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/ripcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}