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Untangling a Web of Interactions Where Surf Meets Coastal Ocean

by J. Lerczak, J. A. Barth, S. Celona, C. Chickadel, J. Colosi, F. Feddersen, M. Haller, S. Haney, L. Lenain, J. A. MacKinnon, J. MacMahan, K. Melville, A. O’Dea, P. Smit, A. Waterhouse and T. Xu 2 May 201911 January 2022

In 2017, an ocean research team launched an unprecedented effort to understand what drives ocean currents in the overlap regions between surf zones and continental shelves.

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