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The Nearshore Sediment Transport Study (NSTS) included two total trap experiments conducted to evaluate the longshore sediment transport relationship I ( = KP (s in which I ( is the total longshore immersed weight sediment transport rate, P (s is the longshore component of wave energy flux and K is a proportionality factor which could depend on a number of wave and sediment parameters. The locations of the two experiments were at Santa Barbara, California and Rudee Inlet, Virginia. The trap characteristics for each of these two sites are quite different. The Santa Barbara trap consists of the spit formed in the lee of the Santa Barbara breakwater. At Rudee Inlet, the trap is inside of a weir-type jetty with a crest elevation at about mean sea level.
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Dean, R.G. (1989). Measuring Longshore Transport with Traps. In: Seymour, R.J. (eds) Nearshore Sediment Transport. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2531-2_27
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