Coastal storms : processes and impacts /
A comprehensive introduction to coastal storms and their associated impacts. Coastal Storms offers students and professionals in the field a comprehensive overview and groundbreaking text that is specifically devoted to the analysis of coastal storms. Based on the most recent knowledge and contribut...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chichester, West Sussex, UK :
John Wiley & Sons Ltd,
2017.
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| Series: | Hydrometeorological extreme events.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Coastal storm definition / Mitchell Harley
- Hydrodynamics under storm conditions / Xavier Bertin, Maitane Olabarrieta and Robert McCall
- Sediment transport under storm conditions on sandy beaches / Troels Aagaard and Aart Kroon
- Examples of storm impacts on barrier islands / Nathaniel Plant, Kara Doran and Hilary Stockdon
- Storm impacts on the morphology and sedimentology of open-coast tidal flats / Ping Wang and Jun Cheng
- Storm impacts on cliffed coastlines / Sue Brooks and Tom Spencer
- Storms in coral reefs / Ana Vila-Concejo and Paul Kench
- Storm clustering and beach response / Nadia Sénéchal, Bruno Castelle and Karin R. Bryan
- Overwash processes : lessons from fieldwork and laboratory experiments / Ana Matias and Gerhard Masselink
- Modeling the morphological impacts of coastal storms / Ap van Dongeren, Dano Roelvink, Robert McCall, Kees Nederhoff and Arnold van Rooijen
- Preparing for the impact of coastal storms : a coastal manager-oriented approach / José Jiménez, Clara Armaroli and Eva Bosom
- Assessing storm erosion hazards / Roshanka Ranasinghe and David Callaghan
- Conclusions and future perspectives.