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Hung-Cheng Tao, Tai-Wen Hsu and Chia-Ming Fan
In this paper, an improved one-line evolution formulation is proposed and derived for the dynamic shoreline planforms of embayed beaches. Although embayed sandy beaches can perform several functions, serving as leisure spots and areas of coastal protecti...
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Kees Nederhoff, Sean C. Crosby, Nate R. Van Arendonk, Eric E. Grossman, Babak Tehranirad, Tim Leijnse, Wouter Klessens and Patrick L. Barnard
The Puget Sound Coastal Storm Modeling System (PS-CoSMoS) is a tool designed to dynamically downscale future climate scenarios (i.e., projected changes in wind and pressure fields and temperature) to compute regional water levels, waves, and compound flo...
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Ilona ?akurova, Vitalijus Kondrat, Egle Baltranaite and Vita Gardauske
The Lithuanian coastal area is divided by the jetties of the Port of Klaipeda and represents two geomorphologically distinct parts. Local companies and institutions contribute to shaping the coastal area through infrastructure development. Awareness of t...
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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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Giandomenico Foti, Giuseppe Barbaro, Giuseppina Chiara Barillà and Pierluigi Mancuso
An important process that began in many Mediterranean countries in the last century, after the end of the Second World War, concerns the displacement of a large part of the population from inland to coastal areas, expanding many existing cities and build...
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Dionysios N. Apostolopoulos, Pavlos Avramidis and Konstantinos G. Nikolakopoulos
The Prokopos Lagoon is part of the Kotychi Strofilias National Wetlands Park, which is supervised by the Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change of Greece. The lagoon is situated at the northwestern coast of the Peloponnese and is protected by...
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Zunaira Asif, Zhi Chen, Chunjiang An and Jinxin Dong
Oil spills are of great concern because they impose a threat to the marine ecosystem, including shorelines. As oil spilled at sea is transported to the shoreline, and after its arrival, its behavior and physicochemical characteristics change because of n...
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Alexandre Nicolae Lerma, Julie Billy, Thomas Bulteau and Cyril Mallet
Seawalls are commonly used worldwide to protect urbanized sea fronts. These alongshore protection structures are often blamed for hydro-sedimentary dynamics perturbations, but without clear and generalizable conclusions on long-term morphodynamic effects...
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Khairul Nizam Abdul Maulud, Siti Norsakinah Selamat, Fazly Amri Mohd, Noorashikin Md Noor, Wan Shafrina Wan Mohd Jaafar, Mohd Khairul Amri Kamarudin, Effi Helmy Ariffin, Nor Aizam Adnan and Anizawati Ahmad
Coastal areas are fragile and changeable due to natural and anthropogenic factors. The resulting changes could have a significant impact on the coastal community. Thus, monitoring shoreline changes for environmental protection in the Selangor coastal are...
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