Download or read book Prediction of Shoreline Changes Near Tidal Inlets written by Barry D. Douglas and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Shoreline Changes Adjacent to Florida a East Coast Tidal Inlets written by Paul Work and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book National Assessment of Shoreline Change written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Estuaries written by Michael J. Kennish and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-17 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Estuaries, part of Springer's Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series, provides a single, state-of-the-art, comprehensive reference volume on estuaries for research scientists, educators, students, and others. Consisting of almost 270 subject entries in an easy-to-use format, this volume covers the physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of estuaries. In total more than 225 authors from around the world have contributed to the encyclopedia on such diverse subjects as biotic communities, essential habitats, food webs, fisheries, hydrology, pollution, conservation, and many more. The Encyclopedia of Estuaries will meet the needs of professionals worldwide by supplying detailed information from world-class estuarine and marine scientists as well as experts from other fields of study.

Download or read book Managing Coastal Erosion written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More and more of the nation's vast coastlines are being filled with homes and vacation resorts. The result is an increasing number of structures built on erosion-prone shoresâ€"with many of these structures facing collapse or damage. In response to mounting property losses, Congress has given the Federal Emergency Management Agency responsibility for incorporating coastal erosion into its National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). This book from the National Research Council addresses the immediate question of how to develop an erosion insurance programâ€"as well as the larger issues raised by the continually changing face of our nation's shorelines. Managing Coastal Erosion explores major questions surrounding a national policy on coastal erosion: Should the federal government be in the business of protecting developers and individuals who build in erosion-prone coastal areas? How should such a program be implemented? Can it prompt more responsible management of coastal areas? The volume provides federal policymakers, state floodplain and resource managers, civil engineers, environmental groups, marine specialists, development companies, and researchers with invaluable information about the natural processes of coastal erosion and the effect of human activity on those processes. The book also details the workings of the NFIP, lessons to be learned from numerous state coastal management programs, and much more.

Download or read book Tidal Prism written by James T. Jarrett and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Backbarrier Sedimentation and Inlet Induced Shoreline Change Associated with a Migrating Tidal Inlet written by Christopher William Freeman and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Morphodynamic Model for Predicting Beach Changes Based on Bagnold s Concept and Its Applications written by Takaaki Uda and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-12-19 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors have developed models for predicting beach changes applicable to various problems on real coasts. One of them is the contour-line-change model to predict long-term beach changes caused by the imbalance in longshore sand transport, which is a kind of N-line model. Because the calculation of the nearshore current is not needed in this model, and the computational load is small, it has an advantage in the prediction of long-term topographic changes on an extensive coast. However, the handling of boundary conditions becomes difficult when offshore coastal structures are constructed in a complicated manner, and in this regard the so-called 3D model has an advantage. Taking this point into account, the authors developed a morphodynamic model (BG model) by applying the concept of the equilibrium slope and the energetics approach, in which depth changes on 2D horizontal grids are calculated.

Download or read book Historical Shoreline Response to Inlet Modifications and Sea Level Rise written by Jonathan R. H. Grant and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mitigating Shore Erosion Along Sheltered Coasts written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-05-04 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like ocean beaches, sheltered coastal areas experience land loss from erosion and sea level rise. In response, property owners often install hard structures such as bulkheads as a way to prevent further erosion, but these structures cause changes in the coastal environment that alter landscapes, reduce public access and recreational opportunities, diminish natural habitats, and harm species that depend on these habitats for shelter and food. Mitigating Shore Erosion Along Sheltered Coasts recommends coastal planning efforts and permitting policies to encourage landowners to use erosion control alternatives that help retain the natural features of coastal shorelines.

Download or read book Coastal Engineering 2008 In 5 Volumes Proceedings Of The 31st International Conference written by Jane Mckee Smith and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 5136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This proceedings contains papers presented at the 31st International Conference on Coastal Engineering, which has held in Hamburg, Germany (31 August - 5 September 2008). The proceeding is divided into five parts: Waves; Long Waves, Nearshore Currents, and Swash; Sediment Transport and Morphology; Coastal Management, Environment, and Risk; and Coastal Structures. The papers cover a broad range of topics including theory, numerical and physical modeling, field measurements, case studies, design, and management. Coastal Engineering 2008 provides coastal engineers, scientists, and planners, with state-of-the-art information on coastal engineering and coastal processes.

Download or read book Proceedings of the 59th Meeting of the Coastal Engineering Research Board written by Coastal Engineering Research Board. Meeting and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Tide Tables High and Low Water Predictions East Coast of North and South America Including Greenland written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Stability of Tidal Inlets written by Per Bruun and published by Elsevier Science & Technology. This book was released on 1978 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stability of Tidal Inlets ...

Download or read book Modelling Shoreline Evolution Over Multiple Time scales written by Jennifer Montano Munoz and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, research efforts to understand and predict beach evolution have increased since it is becoming clear that coastal erosion is likely to be exacerbated as a result of the intensification of storms and increased rates of sea level rise. The social and economic implications of changes along the beach are vast, hence the importance of developing predictive models. Despite the development of a variety of models based on different approaches to address shoreline evolution, the predictive capability of these models is still limited by an incomplete understanding of interactions between drivers and responses, and the different spatial and temporal scales at which they act. In general, traditional shoreline models (based on the equilibrium concept), have shown good performance at predicting shoreline changes from seasonal to multi-annual time-scales but still struggle to predict faster changes in the shoreline position. Therefore, a modi cation of one of the most popular shoreline evolution models (Yates et al., 2009) is introduced, showing good performance when predicting time-scales longer than seasonal but also the faster shoreline changes. The model was presented in a competition where 19 numerical models (a mix of established shoreline models and machine learning techniques) were tested at Tairua beach, New Zealand. The results showed that although traditional models and machine learning techniques had a good performance at reproducing the shoreline evolution during the 15 years of calibration, skill decreased during the 3 years of forecast prediction (unseen data). A model ensemble results in better performance than any individual model, accounting for uncertainties in model architecture. The study gave evidence of the difficulty in achieving reliable predictions over both short and long-term shoreline time-scales. For this reason, a new model approach based on the Complete Ensemble Empirical Mode Decom- position method is introduced and tested at two study sites (Narrabeen, Australia and Tairua, New Zealand). The new approach estimates the characteristic oscillations in the shoreline and drivers, allowing to predict the shoreline changes at individual time-scales, identifying the drivers with the largest contribution to shoreline change. Then the total shoreline position is predicted as the sum of all the significant time-scales. The approach is novel also because it uses as model drivers, sea level pressure fields and gradients, in addition to the more traditional bulk wave information. The new model displays better performance when compared to an established shoreline model. This approach bridges the short-term shoreline change driven by waves with longer-term changes driven by large-scale climate oscillations (e.g. El Ni~no Southern Oscillation). Finally, the new model approach was applied to a beach with an entirely different setting, Vougot beach, France. This beach is unique in many aspects: the large tidal range, the presence of o shore rocks, and the frequently observed dune erosion during storm events followed by resilience phases in between stormy winters, making the modelling extremely challenging. The dune/beach interactions were analysed throughout a centroid analysis in which the dominant beach change modes were identified The analysis allows to identify how the sediment contribution resulting from the dune erosion events `resets' the shoreline behavior. As a result, the shoreline oscillations at time-scales related to dune erosion and recovery events account for a large part of the explained variance. This methodology allows improving understanding of beach-dune interactions, and even more generally, prediction horizons at beaches where many processes operate and traditional approaches fail. Overall, the research provides useful insights to understand that in addition to the expected seasonal-annual shoreline changes caused by incident wave variability or long-term changes associated with longshore sediment transport, many other time-scales of change may co-exist and have significant impacts on shoreline evolution and its prediction.

Download or read book Hydrodynamics and Sediment Dynamics of Tidal Inlets written by David G. Aubrey and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along much of the shoreline of the world, tidal inlets play an important role in nearshore processes, providing links between the coastal oceans and protected embayments. Their study is of particular importance not only for the understanding of fundamental processes in coastal oceanography but also for engineering and the proper management of the delicate equilibrium of our shorelines. This volume, based on the International Symposium on Hydrodynamics and Sediment Dynamics of Tidal Inlets held at Woods Hole, MA, presents the reader with an overview of contemporary research on these important features. The coverage includes: - mathematical modelling, including a review of inlet hydrodynamics, - observations on hydrodynamics, - sedimentology and morphology, - tidal deltas, - processes and policies pertaining to sedimentation, and the - impacts of shore protection and dredging in beaches.