📚 noun • entry_id 44664
rip current
Meanings (ES + gloss)
corriente de resaca
A strong flow of surface water, away from the shore, that returns water from incoming waves.
It takes on complicated forms, including longshore currents, which set parallel to the beach, and rip currents, in which water carried shoreward by breaking waves finds its way bac…
Second, where longshore currents converge, rip currents form, carrying water and sediment outward, away from shore (fig. 2.6).
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