Beach Morphodynamics

The study of Beach Morphodynamics refers to the interaction between physical phenomena and beach morphology in a wide range of space and time scale. Several processes can be responsable of beach modification such as waves, tide, wind, storms, sea level rise and climate change. All these factors can be analysed in a more complex approach if combined to boundary conditions like sediment characteristics, geology, antecedent morphology, influence from human activities, biology, etc.

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Papers dealing with Beach Morphodynamics:

• Influence of particle shape on pebble transport in a mixed sand and gravel beach during low energy conditions: implications for nourishment projects.

E. Grottoli, D. Bertoni, P. Ciavola, A. Pozzebon (2019) - Ocean and Coastal Management

• Short term displacements of marked pebbles in the swash zone: Focus on particle shape and size.

• Shoreline rotation and response to nourishment of a gravel embayed beach using a low-cost video monitoring technique: San Michele-Sassi Neri, Central Italy.

M. Harley, U. Andriolo, C. Armaroli, P. Ciavola (2014) - Journal of Coastal Conservation