Tidal Currents

Poster

1334 - Performances Of The Rip Current Warning System At The Haeundae Coast Of South Korea

Presenting Author(s)

• JC

  Junwoo Choi, PhD

  Research Fellow
  Korea Institute of Civil Engineering & Building Technology

Additional Author #1(s)

• SY

  Sung-Bum Yoon

  Hanyang University

Additional Author #3(s)

• TK

  Tae-Soon Kang

  GeoSystem ResearchCorp.

Additional Author #2(s)

• JK

  Jimin Ko

  Korea Hydrographic and Oceanographic Agency

The Haeundae beach is also notorious for frequent and strong rip currents. The large-scale Haeundae rip current is known to be a kind of transient rip currents which is hardly predicted. The rip current warning system estimates the rip current risk level based on the real-time incident wave conditions measured near the beach and the database pre-calculated by a numerical model according to various wave and tide conditions and the topography of the Haeundae coast. This study showed the performance of the forecast and warning system of the rip current at the Haeundae coast of South Korea.