Coastal Foredune Evolution, Part 1: Environmental Factors and Forcing Processes Affecting Morphological Evolution

Abstract

This Coastal and Hydraulics Engineering Technical Note (CHETN) is the first of two CHETNs focused on improving technologies to forecast coastal foredune evolution. Part 1 summarizes the short-, meso-, and multi-decadal-timescale environmental factors and forcing processes that influence the morphodynamic evolution of coastal foredunes. Part 2 reviews modeling approaches to forecast these changes and develops a probabilistic modeling framework to calculate foredune evolution that includes both erosion and growth processes.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2017
Accession Number
AD1028704

Entities

People

  • Katherine Brodie
  • Margaret L. Palmsten
  • Nicholas J. Spore

Organizations

  • United States Army Corps of Engineers

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Barrier Islands
  • Civil Engineering
  • Climate Change
  • Coastal Engineering
  • Coastal Management
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Geography
  • Geometry
  • Grain Size
  • Landforms
  • Moisture Content
  • Ridges
  • Sea Level Rise
  • Sedimentation
  • Storm Surges
  • Wave Power

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Coastal and Marine Engineering/Sediment Transport/Hydraulic Engineering
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Theoretical Analysis.