Rip currents
Ocean currents
2) Vector forecast example, coastal, east Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama
3) Vector forecast example, coastal, west Louisiana and upper Texas
4) Vector forecast example, regional model, Tampa Bay
5) Station current predictions
Tsunamis
2) Tsunami Warning Center
- Rip currents are strong, narrow channels of water that flow out, away from shore. They tend to occur near sandy beaches, where trenches and breaks in the sandbar form off the shoreline on the lake bottom. These powerful, channeled currents often develop because of high wind, waves, shoreline structures (such as piers), and weather phenomena. Rip currents can pull even the strongest swimmers far from the shore, at an average speed of approximately 2 feet per second.
- More detailed information
- Rip current safety
- Rip current forecasting (requires COMET account)
- Example of a rip current predictive index
- Rip currents are now a part of the Nearshore Wave Prediction System.
- Video lecture. Audio only.
Ocean currents
- Regional climatologies
- Forecast products
2) Vector forecast example, coastal, east Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama
3) Vector forecast example, coastal, west Louisiana and upper Texas
4) Vector forecast example, regional model, Tampa Bay
5) Station current predictions
Tsunamis
- Overview PDF of this website
- U.S. tsunamis PDF of this website
- Tsunami overview from NOAA
- Monitoring tsunamis - the DART network .
- DART network website
- Modeling tsunamis
- Ten years since Sumatra (video)
- Fukushima nuclear accident
- Forecast products
2) Tsunami Warning Center