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Jian Liang, Meng-Yuan Shu, Hai-Rui Huang, Chae-Woo Ma and Seon-Kyu Kim
As the global population continues to grow, sandy beaches, one of the most valuable ecosystems, have been widely impacted by human activities. Therefore, to develop policies for the conservation and management of sandy beaches, the impact of human activi...
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Jun Wang, Bo Yang, Bingchen Liang, Zai-Jin You, Zhenlu Wang and Zhaowei Wang
In this study, laboratory experiments were conducted to investigate the influence of changes in storm wave height and water level on beach response in a medium-scale wave flume. A schematic storm was simulated (rising, apex, and waning phases). A non-int...
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Rui Yuan, Ruiyang Xu, Hezhenjia Zhang, Yutao Hua, Hongsheng Zhang, Xiaojing Zhong and Shenliang Chen
This study presents an in-depth analysis of the dynamic beach landscapes of Hainan Island, which is located at the southernmost tip of China. Home to over a hundred natural and predominantly sandy beaches, Hainan Island confronts significant challenges p...
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Ángela Fontán-Bouzas, Tiago Abreu, Caroline C. Ferreira, Paulo A. Silva, Laura López-Olmedilla, José Guitián, Ana M. Bernabeu and Javier Alcántara-Carrió
The morphological responses of two mesotidal beaches located in different coastal settings (embayed and open sandy beaches) on the northwestern Iberian coast were monitored during the winter of 2018/19. The offshore wave time series analysis is related t...
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Sompratana Ritphring, Pattrakorn Nidhinarangkoon and Keiko Udo
Thailand?s current beach management strategies lack integration across sectors, resulting in conflicts of interest and insufficient consideration of diverse beach uses. The complexity of environmental, socio-economic, and coastal disasters challenge poli...
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Carla Labarthe, Bruno Castelle, Vincent Marieu, Thierry Garlan and Stéphane Bujan
Beach slope is a critical parameter to, e.g., beach safety, wave reflection at the coast and longshore transport rate. However, it is usually considered as a time-invariant and profile-average parameter. Here, we apply a state-of-the-art equilibrium mode...
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Yingtao Zhou, Xi Feng, Maoyuan Liu and Weiqun Wang
Beach width is an important factor for tourists? comfort, and the backshore is a swash zone where sediment moves quickly. Artificial sandy beaches focus on beach width stability and evolution. This paper is based on an artificial beach project in Haikou ...
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Pattrakorn Nidhinarangkoon, Sompratana Ritphring, Kanon Kino and Taikan Oki
Phuket, the study area of this work with 33 sandy beaches, provides about 15% of the nation?s gross domestic product from the tourism industry. Many factors cause shoreline changes affecting beach areas, such as seasonal erosion and rising sea levels. In...
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Daniele Trogu, Simone Simeone, Andrea Ruju, Marco Porta, Angelo Ibba and Sandro DeMuro
This paper investigates the dynamics of the cross-shore extensions of banquettes, a sedimentary structure mostly made by rests of Posidonia oceanica (L.) Delile, in a sandy urban beach located in the Gulf of Cagliari, Italy, western Mediterranean. A vide...
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Demetra Cristaudo, Benedict M. Gross and Jack A. Puleo
Military activity has resulted in unexploded ordnance (UXO) existing in the nearshore. Understanding and predicting UXO behavior is important for object identification, and management. Here, two studies (laboratory and fieldwork) have been conducted to o...
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