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Beach Erosion The carrying away of beach materials by wave action, currents, tides, or wind.
These winter weather events are notorious for producing heavy snow, rain, and tremendous waves that crash onto Atlantic beaches, often causing beach erosion and structural damage.
Also known as a longshore bar. Submerged sandbar formed offshore by the processes of beach erosion and accretion. Typically, swell waves break on the offshore bar.
Offshore Zone ...
Browse Related Terms: Beach Erosion, Capillary Waves, Gravity wave, Heat Wave, Kelvin Waves, LGWV, Pressure Induced Wave, Seiche, Tidal Piling, Tidal Wave, Wave Crest, Wave Period, Wave Spectrum, Whitecap, WV ...
A strong low pressure system that affects the Mid Atlantic and New England States. It can form over land or over the coastal waters. It usually produces heavy snows, flooding rains, strong northeast winds, coastal flooding, and beach erosion.
with an intense low pressure system about 1000 kilometres off eastern Australia generated eight- and nine-metre high swell-waves that pounded a thousand kilometres of the Queensland and New South Wales coastlines, causing injuries and beach erosion ...
 See also: Wind, Cloud, Precipitation, Weather, Air
  
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