Historical and Seasonal Investigations of the Depth of Closure and Equilibrium Beach Profile, East Central Florida
Author | : Kevin Christopher Hodgens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Beach erosion |
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Author | : Kevin Christopher Hodgens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Beach erosion |
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Author | : Robert George Dean |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Beach erosion |
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Closure depth is central to many coastal engineering and coastal management activities. This quantity represents an estimate of the average annual depth limit to which sediment motion is active to a significant degree. Thus, this depth provides an approximate limit to which nourished beach profiles will equilibrate and a limit, shallower than which, sediment will tend to be active in the vicinity of a borrow pit. Since the equilibrated dry beach width is inversely related to the closure depth, this quantity is significant to beach nourishment design and performance. Additionally, closure depth provides an obvious inshore limit for the siting of borrow pits since if the sediment transport activity is significant in the vicinity of the borrow pit, some of the sand placed in the nourishment project will be "short circuited" back into the borrow pit and thus lost to the nourishment project. This report provides the results of a reexamination of the closure depths along the Florida shoreline based on the most recent wave hindcasts, compares these results with estimates developed more than a decade ago and presents recommendations for future engineering and management applications.
Author | : Hans Hanson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1110 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
This collection contains 109 papers presented at the Fourth Conference on Coastal Dynamics, held in Lund, Sweden, June 11-15, 2001.
Author | : Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 755 |
Release | : 2022-04-30 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781009157971 |
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading international body for assessing the science related to climate change. It provides policymakers with regular assessments of the scientific basis of human-induced climate change, its impacts and future risks, and options for adaptation and mitigation. This IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate is the most comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the observed and projected changes to the ocean and cryosphere and their associated impacts and risks, with a focus on resilience, risk management response options, and adaptation measures, considering both their potential and limitations. It brings together knowledge on physical and biogeochemical changes, the interplay with ecosystem changes, and the implications for human communities. It serves policymakers, decision makers, stakeholders, and all interested parties with unbiased, up-to-date, policy-relevant information. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Author | : M. Schwartz |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 1243 |
Release | : 2006-11-08 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1402038801 |
This new Encyclopedia of Coastal Science stands as the latest authoritative source in the field of coastal studies, making it the standard reference work for specialists and the interested lay person. Unique in its interdisciplinary approach. This Encyclopedia features contributions by 245 well-known international specialists in their respective fields and is abundantly illustrated with line-drawings and photographs. Not only does this volume offer an extensive number of entries, it also includes various appendices, an illustrated glossary of coastal morphology and extensive bibliographic listings.
Author | : V. J. May |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 764 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Coasts |
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Highlights both the conservation value of the coastal geomorphology sites of Great Britain and the important role these sites play in the development of the science of geomorphology. Each chapter in this work includes descriptions of the landforms and gives interpretation of dynamics of the geomorphological systems operating within the sites.
Author | : Charles W. Finkl |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 839 |
Release | : 2012-12-11 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9400752342 |
This book covers the gamut of coastal hazards that result from short-term low-frequency events and have high-magnitude and far-reaching impacts on coastal zones the world over. Much of the world’s population now lives in low-lying coastal zones that are inherently vulnerable to natural hazards such as flooding from hurricanes, tropical storms and northeastern storm surges; shoreline (beach and dune) erosion; cliff and bluff failures; and saltwater intrusion in coastal aquifers used for drinking water supplies. In addition to the usual range of hydrometeorological disasters in coastal zones, this book covers tsunami impacts and warning systems as well as global perspectives of sea-level rise impacts and human perceptions of potential vulnerabilities resulting from rip currents that cause many drownings each year on beaches. Today, the use of numerical models that help predict vulnerabilities and provide a basis for shore protection measures is important in modern scientific and engineering systems. Final considerations focus on human actions in the form of the urbanization and industrialization of the coast, shore protection measures, and indicate how environmental degradation around coastal conurbations exacerbates the potential for unwanted impacts. Strategies for environmental management in coastal zones, from low-lying wetlands to high cliffs and rocky promontories, are highlighted as a means of living in harmony with Nature and not trying to conquer it.
Author | : Donald J. P. Swift |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 684 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
This volume contains papers presented in a symposium on Shelf Sediment Transport conducted at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America held in Washington, D.C., November 1971.