{"id":229,"date":"2023-08-02T14:43:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T14:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/ripcurrents\/?page_id=229"},"modified":"2023-09-01T12:00:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T12:00:46","slug":"waves","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/ripcurrents\/key-points\/waves\/","title":{"rendered":"Waves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Beach channel <strong>rip current hazards <\/strong>are influenced by a combination of rip <strong>circulation patterns<\/strong> and rip <strong>flow speed<\/strong>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Rip current <strong>flow speed<\/strong> increases with wave height until there is significant wave breaking across the head of the rip channel (outer bar).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Beach channel rip current <strong>flow speeds<\/strong> can be high even under relatively small waves (significant wave heights of approx. 1m).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The proportion of rip exit <strong>flow patterns<\/strong> decreases with increasing wave height.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Beach channel rips are especially <strong>hazardous<\/strong> to bathers under <strong>small swell-wave<\/strong> conditions with a <strong>long wave period<\/strong>. Under these conditions rip <strong>flow speed<\/strong>, rip <strong>exits<\/strong> and rip pulsation are <strong>maximized<\/strong>.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beach channel rip current hazards are influenced by a combination of rip circulation patterns and rip flow speed. Rip current flow speed increases with wave height until there is significant wave breaking across the head of the rip channel (outer bar). Beach channel rip current flow speeds can be high even under relatively small waves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":0,"parent":218,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-229","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/ripcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/229","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=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/ripcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/ripcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/229\/revisions\/351"}],"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=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}