The Coastal Inlet Model Facility, as part of the The Coastal Inlets Research Program(CIRP), is an idealized inlet dedicated to the study of coastal inlets, which are regions connecting two or more large bodies of water by a short narrow channel. The water bodies may be an ocean and lagoon, a large lake and a bay, or a river entering a sea or lake. The facility, located in Vicksburg, Mississippi, is equipped to represent the most significant physical processes at and around inlets. Experts at ERDC's Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory (CHL)produced the facility to develop an understanding of inlet inner-bank erosion, inlet equilibrium area, wave-current interaction in the navigation channel, sediment pathway alteration with jetty spurs and jetty weirs, and wave diffraction-refraction effects at coastal inlets. The facility is available for specific projects by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers District offices, other governmental agencies, and private consultants when interactive with CIRP. |
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