The proceedings of the coastal sediments 2015
"This Proceedings contains over 260 papers on cutting-edge research presented at the eighth international Symposium on Coastal Sediment Processes, held May 11 - 15, 2015, in San Diego, California, USA. This technical specialty conference was devoted to promoting an interdisciplinary exchange of...
Saved in:
| Corporate Author | |
|---|---|
| Other Authors | , , |
| Format | Electronic eBook |
| Language | English |
| Published |
Singapore :
World Scientific Publishing Company,
[2015]
|
| Subjects | |
| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 9789814689977 9814689971 9789814689960 |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (xxxi, 3129 pages) : illustrations |
Cover
Table of Contents:
- Front ; CONTENTS; COASTAL EVOLUTION AND HUMAN-INDUCED SEA-LEVEL RISE: HISTORY AND PROGNOSIS; ADDRESSING LOCAL AND GLOBAL SEDIMENT IMBALANCES: COASTAL SEDIMENTS AS RARE MINERALS; COMPLEX; EMERGING FROM A MODEL OF ALONGSHORE-COUPLED DYNAMIC PROFILE EVOLUTION; INVESTIGATING MORPHOLOGICAL AND STRATIGRAPHIC CHANGES TO THE SUBMARINE SHOREFACE OF A TRANSGRESSIVE BARRIER ISLAND: FOLLETS ISLAND, NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO; THE ROLE OF HURRICANES ON THE MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION OF A SEDIMENT-STARVED BARRIER ISLAND ALONG THE UPPER TEXAS COAST: FOLLETS ISLAND.
- Modelling dune erosion, overwash and breaching at fire island (ny) during hurricane sandyerosive and accretive mobile bed experiments in large scale tests; numerical investigation of beach profile evolution using a new sediment concentration model; measuring and modeling beach-profile response to tropical storm debby, west central florida; laboratory assessment of the modified bruun rule extended for landward transport; on the modeling of sandbar formation over a steep beach profile during the large-scale wave flume experiment bardex ii.
- Challenges and successes in sbeach model calibration studiescoastal erosion hazards due to higher sea level: a simple hybrid historical/geometric model; simple pocket beach rotation model derived from linear analysis; application of eof analysis to the evolution of a feeder beach constructed wthin a groin field; beach changes triggered by imbalance of longshore sand transport and ground subsidence on south kujukuri beach; shoreline evolution under sequences of storms from 6-year video observation at a meso-macrotidal beach.
- Oceanic island beaches sedimentary, morphological, geochemical seasonal variations. the case of fernando de noronha island, pernambuco state
- brazilmodelling inter-annual scale beach change; upcoast expansion of erosion opposite to direction of predominant longshore sand transport observed in futtsu point; shoreline variability on a sandy beach in southern brazil; morphology changes of sand spit around the tenryu river mouth due to floods accompanied with overtopping waves; foredune classification and storm response: automated analysis of terrestrial lidar dems.
- The influence of spatially varying supply on coastal aeolian transport: a field experimentdune growth due to aeolian sediment transport and the role of the beach and intertidal zone; wind tunnel study on two-dimensional sand accumulation forms around sand fences; aeolian sand differentiation along the curonian spit coast, baltic sea, lithuania; large storm impact on a beach under sand nourishments; verification of effect of gravel nourishment on hamamatsu-shinohara coast, japan; observations of four nourished beaches; aeolian activity on a peninsula-shaped mega nourishment.