Wave Conditions at Barnegat Inlet New Jersey, 10 November 1984

• Main Authors: Brown, Willie Ann, Abel, Charles Eugene, Chen, Hsuan Shan, Corson, William D., Thompson, Edward W.
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) 1988
• Subjects: Ingenieurwissenschaften (620); Inlets (N.J. ); Barnegat Inlets (N.J. ); Water waves; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11970/111383

Source: https://erdc-library.erdc.dren.mil/jspui/ Wave conditions at Barnegat Inlet, New Jersey, on 10 November 1984 are investigated because of a boating accident. The accident has resulted in a lawsuit against the US Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) . Haves at Barnegat Inlet are hindcast with state-of-the-art numerical models including offshore wave growth and propagation and nearshore transformation. The waves of interest are swell waves originally generated well offshore in the north Atlantic Ocean. The waves are modified by the shallow bottom as they approach the coast. Tidal currents at the time of the accident and the effect on incoming waves are also estimated. Have measurement on 10 November 1984 from two sites are also investigated. A nearshore Corps wave buoy at Manasquan, New Jersey, provides important information relative to Barnegat Inlet. An offshore National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) buoyt located southeast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, is helpful in validating the hindcasts. Wave conditions at Barnegat Inlet on 10 November 1984 are related to the general wave climate in the area by using the 20-year hindcast from the Corps Wave Information Studies. Significant wave heights and periods are higher/longer than average for the season, but neither height nor period represents a rare extreme event.