{"id":227,"date":"2023-08-02T14:43:08","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T14:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/ripcurrents\/?page_id=227"},"modified":"2023-09-01T11:59:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T11:59:29","slug":"tides","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/ripcurrents\/key-points\/tides\/","title":{"rendered":"Tides"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Tides control the amount of wave breaking over the sandbars (bar\/rip morphology), controlling rip activity.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Beach channel rip current flows are often enhanced at low water (especially MLW) when waves are breaking over the sandbars.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On large-tidal beaches rip currents can \u2018switch off\u2019 at higher tides&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Low tide beach rip activity can be dramatically affected by the spring\/neap cycle<ul><li>Spring low tides: shallow or dry sandbars \u2013reduced rips<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Mean low tides: most wave breaking over sandbars \u2013 increased rips<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Neap low tides: deep sandbars with little wave breaking \u2013 reduced rips<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tides control the amount of wave breaking over the sandbars (bar\/rip morphology), controlling rip activity. Beach channel rip current flows are often enhanced at low water (especially MLW) when waves are breaking over the sandbars. On large-tidal beaches rip currents can \u2018switch off\u2019 at higher tides&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Low tide beach rip activity can be dramatically affected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":0,"parent":218,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-227","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/ripcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/227","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=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/ripcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/ripcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/227\/revisions\/349"}],"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=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}