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Hindcast and validation of Hurricane Ike (2008) waves, forerunner, and storm surge by Hope, M. E., Westerink, J. J., Kennedy, A. B., Kerr, P. C., Dietrich, J. C., Dawson, C., Bender, C. J., Smith, J. M., Jensen, R. E., Zijlema, M., Holthuijsen, L. H., Luettich Jr, R. A., Powell, M. D., Cardone, V. J., Cox, A. T., Pourtaheri, H., Roberts, H. J., Atkinson, J. H., Tanaka, S., Westerink, H. J., Westerink, L. G.

“…Hurricane Ike (2008) made landfall near Galveston, Texas, as a moderate intensity storm. Its large wind field in conjunction with the Louisiana‐Texas…”
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Drifter measurements in a laboratory rip current by Kennedy, Andrew B., Thomas, David

“…This paper investigates circulation in a laboratory rip current system using large numbers of Lagrangian drifters, with supplementary current meter and water…”
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Boussinesq Modeling of Wave Transformation, Breaking, and Runup. I: 1D by Kennedy, Andrew B, Chen, Qin, Kirby, James T, Dalrymple, Robert A

“…Parts I and II of this paper describe the extension and testing of two sets of Boussinesq-type equations to include surf zone phenomena. Part I is restricted…”
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U.S. IOOS coastal and ocean modeling testbed: Evaluation of tide, wave, and hurricane surge response sensitivities to mesh resolution and friction in the Gulf of Mexico by Kerr, P. C., Martyr, R. C., Donahue, A. S., Hope, M. E., Westerink, J. J., Luettich Jr, R. A., Kennedy, A. B., Dietrich, J. C., Dawson, C., Westerink, H. J.

“…This paper investigates model response sensitivities to mesh resolution, topographical details, bottom friction formulations, the interaction of wind waves and…”
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U.S. IOOS coastal and ocean modeling testbed: Inter-model evaluation of tides, waves, and hurricane surge in the Gulf of Mexico by Kerr, P. C., Donahue, A. S., Westerink, J. J., Luettich Jr, R. A., Zheng, L. Y., Weisberg, R. H., Huang, Y., Wang, H. V., Teng, Y., Forrest, D. R., Roland, A., Haase, A. T., Kramer, A. W., Taylor, A. A., Rhome, J. R., Feyen, J. C., Signell, R. P., Hanson, J. L., Hope, M. E., Estes, R. M., Dominguez, R. A., Dunbar, R. P., Semeraro, L. N., Westerink, H. J., Kennedy, A. B., Smith, J. M., Powell, M. D., Cardone, V. J., Cox, A. T.

“…A Gulf of Mexico performance evaluation and comparison of coastal circulation and wave models was executed through harmonic analyses of tidal simulations,…”
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The stability of wave-driven rip current circulation by Kennedy, A. B., Zhang, Y.

“…This paper examines the stability of rip currents with shore‐normal wave forcing using numerical stability analyses of nonlinear base flows. Leading order…”
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Boussinesq modeling of a rip current system by Chen, Qin, Dalrymple, Robert A., Kirby, James T., Kennedy, Andrew B., Haller, Merrick C.

“…In this study, we use a time domain numerical model based on the fully nonlinear extended Boussinesq equations [Wei et al., 1995] to investigate surface wave…”
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Boussinesq Modeling of Wave Transformation, Breaking, and Runup. II: 2D by Chen, Qin, Kirby, James T, Dalrymple, Robert A, Kennedy, Andrew B, Chawla, Arun

“…In this paper, we focus on the implementation and verification of an extended Boussinesq model for surf zone hydrodynamics in two horizontal dimensions. The…”
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Boussinesq-type equations with improved nonlinear performance by Kennedy, Andrew B., Kirby, James T., Chen, Qin, Dalrymple, Robert A.

“…In this paper, we derive and test a set of extended Boussinesq equations with improved nonlinear performance. To do this, the concept of a reference elevation…”
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Rip Currents with Varying Gap Widths by Kennedy, AB, Zhang, Y, Haas, KA

“…The behavior of rip currents with changing bar and gap lengths was tested in a series of laboratory experiments using video-tracked floating drifters…”
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Laboratory measurements of the drag coefficient over a fixed shoaling hurricane wave train by Zachry, B C, Letchford, C W, Zuo, D, Kennedy, AB

“…This paper presents results from a wind tunnel study that examined the drag coefficient and wind flow over an asymmetric wave train immersed in turbulent…”
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Ephemeral sand waves in the hurricane surf zone by Kennedy, Andrew B., Slatton, K. Clint, Hsu, Tian-Jian, Starek, Michael J., Kampa, Kittipat

“…Airborne bathymetric LIDAR observations along the Florida panhandle after Hurricane Dennis (2005) show the first unequivocal observations of surf-zone sand…”
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Video Measurements of Large-Scale Flows in a Laboratory Wave Basin by Haas, KA, Kennedy, AB, Sapp, B K

“…This paper describes nonintrusive optical techniques to measure large-scale O(10 m x 10 m) flows in a laboratory wave basin. Numerous drifters with weak…”
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An approach to determining nearshore bathymetry using remotely sensed ocean surface dynamics by Misra, Shubhra K, Kennedy, Andrew B, Kirby, James T

“…This paper describes a spatially one-dimensional algorithm developed to estimate water depths from remotely sensed information of the water surface, using…”
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Simplified higher-order Boussinesq equations: I. Linear simplifications by Kennedy, Andrew B., Kirby, James T., Gobbi, Mauricio F.

“…In this paper, we derive and test simplified higher-order Boussinesq equations, i.e., higher-order Boussinesq equations which only show lower-order terms…”
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An unsteady wave driver for narrowbanded waves: modeling nearshore circulation driven by wave groups by Kennedy, Andrew B., Kirby, James T.

“…In this paper, we derive an unsteady refraction–diffraction model for narrowbanded water waves for use in computing coupled wave–current motion in the…”
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Initiating the First DTP Vaccination Age-appropriately: A Model for Understanding Vaccination Coverage by Ross, Alan, Kennedy, Anne Baber, Holt, Elizabeth, Guyer, Bernard, Hou, William, Hughart, Nancy

“…Our earlier research found that the strongest predictor of not being up to date on the full series of immunizations by 24 months is failure to receive the…”
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Determination of Inverse Depths Using Direct Boussinesq Modeling by Kennedy, A. B, Dalrymple, R. A, Kirby, J. T, Chen, Q

“…This paper presents a technique to reconstruct bathymetry using two snapshots of water surface elevations and velocities as data. A Boussinesq model…”
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A fully-nonlinear computational method for wave propagation over topography by Kennedy, Andrew B., Fenton, John D.

“…By assuming that the velocity potential is locally represented by a polynomial analytically satisfying Laplace's equation, a method is developed to compute the…”
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The Effects of a Broad-Spectrum Matrix Metalloproteinase Inhibitor on Characteristics of Wound Healing by Klein, Scott A., Anderson, Gary L., Kennedy, Amy B., Bond, Sheldon J.

“…This study investigates the effects of a broad-spectrum matrix metalloproteinase inhibitor (MMP-i) on the rate of closure, hydroxyproline deposition, and…”
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