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Question on beta (beach slope) #235
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Hi Alessio, thanks for the message! Yes, this is probably worth noting in the documentation. I think the β value referred to in Stockdon (2006) is tan β. So your typical values for tan β should be between around 0.05 (very flat) and 0.1 (very steep). I probably need to go back an review the other formulas as well - it looks like I've doubled up on the tan in some cases, thanks for letting me know! 😊 |
Thanks for the prompt answer. In the literature this is not clear at all, too. Most report Stockdon's formula with tan(β) but the original is reported as β. https://zenodo.org/records/10427736 I'll link the preprint as soon as it is available. |
Hello there, very nice package. I am using it to model some beach ridges in Argentina. I have one doubt, though, about the beach slope. It does not change much (I suppose) but the β (slope) value requested in the inputs is the angle β itself or tan(β) (i.e., height / length of the foreshore zone) ?
The doubt came by looking how Stockdon's equation in his original paper (β, I assume in radians) and how it is reported in several papers after him (tan(β)). To me it makes more sense if that is tan(β), but I can't wrap my mind around this.
Thanks!
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