APPENDIX B: NOTATION 



a Edge wave shoreline amplitude 



g Gravitational acceleration 



H Deep-water significant wave height 



J Zeroth order Bessel function 



k Edge wave longshore wave number, 2tt/L 



L Edge wave longshore wavelength 



L Deep-water wavelength 



L Laguerre polynomial of order n 



n Edge wave mode number 



t Time 



T Period 



x and y Cross-shore, longshore coordinates 



x 0, shoreline, increase offshore 



6 Beach slope 



n Edge wave surface elevation 



t; Surf-similarity parameter (Irribaren number) 



o Edge wave radial frequency, 2-ir/T 



4> Edge wave cross-shore amplitude function 



X Nondimensional offshore distance 



B1 



