FOREWORD 



Sand transport by wind is a major factor involving stability 

 of the beach and backshore in some areas. Experimental work on 

 this subject which validated findings of previous investigators 

 with respect to the rate of such transport by wind, was presented 

 in earlier U. S. Army Corps of Engineers publications (Technical 

 Memorandum No. 119 of the former Beach Erosion Board - "Sand 

 Movement by Wind Action: or Characteristics of Sand Traps", and 

 Technical Memorandum No. 1 of the Coastal Engineering Research 

 Center - "Sand Movement by Wind"). The brief report herein sum- 

 marizes available methods for calculating the actual rate of sand 

 transport by wind and presents specific procedures and calculations 

 for annual transport from the beach inland by wind at a natural 

 beach locality in California. 



This report was prepared at the Wave Research Laboratory of the 

 Institute of Engineering Research of the University of California 

 at Berkeley in pursuance of contract DA-49-055-civ-eng-63-4 with the 

 Beach Erosion Board which provides in part for the study of sand 

 movement by wind. The author of this report, Abdel-Latif Kadib , 

 was a graduate student at the University at the time this work was 

 accomplished. 



This report is published under authority of Public Law 166, 

 79th Congress, approved 31 July 1945, as modified by Public Law i 

 172, approved 7 November 1963. 



