longshore in English

adjective
1
existing on, frequenting, or moving along the seashore.
longshore currents

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1. Breakwaters intercept longshore currents and tend to prevent beach erosion

2. This often occurs in the opposite direction to longshore drift.

3. The wave pattern created by this water movement causes a convergence of longshore drift on the opposite side of the island.

4. The larger the breaking waves, the longer the beach and the more oblique the wave approach, the stronger is the longshore current.

5. Breakwater, artificial offshore structure protecting a harbour, anchorage, or marina basin from water waves. Breakwaters intercept longshore currents and tend to prevent beach erosion

6. This equation plainly represents the material drift and, hence, accretion and erosion along the coast as a function of the distribution of the surf energy and the strength of the longshore current.

7. Nevertheless, all the mobile sand has been accumulated in a longshore sand bar between the beach and the 7 m depth line. By coring, a terrace has been detected, which resulted from the mechanism of the backgoing shore system.