An OpenMI-based combined model for alongshore sediment transport and shoreline change

Author(s):  
Zeng Zhou ◽  
Belén Lopez de San Roman ◽  
Robert Nicholls
1976 ◽  
Vol 1 (15) ◽  
pp. 72
Author(s):  
Tsuguo Sunamura ◽  
Kiyoshi Horikawa

In order to elucidate the transport pattern of sediment in a closed system, a pocket beach was chosen and investigated from various aspects. This investigation included the following studies: (1) bathymetric survey by an echo sounder, (2) survey of submarine geology using an acoustic probe, (3) observation of nearshore current systems using floats, (4) documentation of the transport pattern of suspended sediment by aerial photographs, (5) examination of depositional environments of bottom and beach material by sieve analysis, (6) inference of long-term alongshore sediment transport pattern from the grain size properties of beach sand, and measurement of short-term trends by use of fluorescent sand, and (7) examination of long-term shoreline change using old and recent maps.


Author(s):  
Yan Ding ◽  
Sung-Chan Kim ◽  
Richard B. Styles ◽  
Rusty L. Permenter

Driven by wave and current, sediment transport alongshore and cross-shore induces shoreline changes in coasts. Estimated by breaking wave energy flux, longshore sediment transport in littoral zone has been studied for decades. Cross-shore sediment transport can be significant in a gentle-slope beach and a barred coast due to bar migration. Short-term beach profile evolution (typically for a few days or weeks) has been successfully simulated by reconstructing nonlinear wave shape in nearshore zone (e.g. Hsu et al 2006, Fernandez-Mora et al. 2015). However, it is still lack of knowledge on the relationship between cross-shore sediment transport and long-term shoreline evolution. Based on the methodology of beach profile evolution modeling, a semi-empirical closure model is developed for estimating phase-average net cross-shore sediment transport rate induced by waves, currents, and gravity. This model has been implemented into GenCade, the USACE shoreline evolution model.


Author(s):  
B R Rajasree ◽  
M C Deo

The estimation of shoreline change as well as sediment transport at a specified site can be reliably made with the help of corresponding numerical models that are run with the help of historical wave data generated using windwave models based on the input of past wind conditions. It is well known that the magnitude and behavior of historical wind and waves would not remain same in future as a result of the climate change induced by global warming. (Komar et al., 2010). In this light the present study attempts to understand what happens if future wind and waves are generated using regional climate models (RCMs) and the shoreline change and sediment transport is determined on that basis instead of historical wind and wave data. Toward this we have considered there different types of shorelines, namely (a) an uninterrupted coastal stretch, (b) the coast interrupted by an artificial structure and (c) the coast interrupted by natural features. This study goes beyond an earlier one (Rajasree et al., 2016) in which only case (a) was discussed and where coastal vulnerability was not assessed.


2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (12) ◽  
pp. 3096-3101 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. E. Grady ◽  
L. J. Moore ◽  
C. D. Storlazzi ◽  
E. Elias ◽  
M. A. Reidenbach

Author(s):  
Khoudir Mezouar ◽  
Romeo Ciortan

Abstract The coastline of Zemmouri Bay on the northeast coast of Algeria with about 50 km of shoreline has been eroding since 1970. Changes of the sandy shoreline are continuous and occur at diverse spatial and temporal scales. This erosion is a major crisis and it potentially impacts the coastal population and natural environment. In order to understand and predict these morphological changes, an accurate description of sediment transport by waves and currents and shoreline change is important. This paper presents a comprehensive study of wave refraction, current-driven sediment transport and shoreline change. Results show that the study area exhibits a great variety of shoreline evolution trends, with erosion prevailing in the eastern and central sectors and stability or even accretion in the Western area.


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