Climate change-driven coastal erosion modelling in temperate sandy beaches: Methods and uncertainty treatment

A Toimil, P Camus, IJ Losada, G Le Cozannet… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Developing future projections of shoreline change requires a good understanding of the
driving coastal processes. These processes result primarily from the combination of mean …

The lower shoreface: Morphodynamics and sediment connectivity with the upper shoreface and beach

EJ Anthony, T Aagaard - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
The lower shoreface provides the connection between the continental shelf and the
shoreline via its onshore transition called the upper shoreface. Lower shorefaces are …

Sandy coastlines under threat of erosion

MI Vousdoukas, R Ranasinghe, L Mentaschi… - Nature climate …, 2020 - nature.com
Sandy beaches occupy more than one-third of the global coastline and have high
socioeconomic value related to recreation, tourism and ecosystem services. Beaches are …

Impact of the winter 2013–2014 series of severe Western Europe storms on a double-barred sandy coast: Beach and dune erosion and megacusp embayments

B Castelle, V Marieu, S Bujan, KD Splinter, A Robinet… - Geomorphology, 2015 - Elsevier
The winter of 2013/2014 was characterized by a striking pattern of temporal and spatial
extreme storm wave clustering in Western Europe. The 110-km long Gironde coast, SW …

Projections of extreme storm surge levels along Europe

MI Vousdoukas, E Voukouvalas, A Annunziato… - Climate Dynamics, 2016 - Springer
Storm surges are an important coastal hazard component and it is unknown how they will
evolve along Europe's coastline in view of climate change. In the present contribution, the …

A model integrating longshore and cross‐shore processes for predicting long‐term shoreline response to climate change

S Vitousek, PL Barnard, P Limber… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We present a shoreline change model for coastal hazard assessment and management
planning. The model, CoSMoS‐COAST (Coastal One‐line Assimilated Simulation Tool), is a …

Influence of El Niño on the variability of global shoreline position

R Almar, J Boucharel, M Graffin, GO Abessolo… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Coastal zones are fragile and complex dynamical systems that are increasingly under threat
from the combined effects of anthropogenic pressure and climate change. Using global …

A model integrating satellite‐derived shoreline observations for predicting fine‐scale shoreline response to waves and sea‐level rise across large coastal regions

S Vitousek, K Vos, KD Splinter… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Satellite‐derived shoreline observations combined with dynamic shoreline models enable
fine‐scale predictions of coastal change across large spatiotemporal scales. Here, we …

Dynamic flood modeling essential to assess the coastal impacts of climate change

PL Barnard, LH Erikson, AC Foxgrover, JAF Hart… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Coastal inundation due to sea level rise (SLR) is projected to displace hundreds of millions
of people worldwide over the next century, creating significant economic, humanitarian, and …

Modeling the morphodynamics of coastal responses to extreme events: What shape are we in?

CR Sherwood, A Van Dongeren, J Doyle… - Annual review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
This review focuses on recent advances in process-based numerical models of the impact of
extreme storms on sandy coasts. Driven by larger-scale models of meteorology and …