Beach Geomorphology and Morphodynamics
A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Geological Oceanography".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 July 2021) | Viewed by 812
Special Issue Editors
Interests: beach morphology; coastal morphodynamics; coastal processes; climate change; coastal hydrodynamics; constrained beaches; mixed carbonatics and clastic beaches; sea level rise; coastal adaptation; wave hydrodynamics
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Interests: environment; water quality; finite modeling; numerical modeling; ecology; simulation; sedimentology; modeling
Interests: sedimentology; coastal morphodynamics; marine geology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Beaches and barriers characterize coastal areas all around the world, providing protection from storms and flooding, hosting important ecosystems, and playing an important role for local touristic activities.
The dynamics of these systems are influenced by several factors, including sediment availability and grain size, hydrodynamic processes, and geological inheritances. The interactions between these factors or alternatively solely one could influence the characteristics of the beaches and barrier systems. Furthermore, anthropogenic factors can promote changes in beach and barriers dynamics and can promote severe coastal erosion. On the other hand, over a long-term perspective, climate change, and in particular sea level rise can be considered the most important force that would have an impact on coastal areas.
This Special Issue is devoted to collecting original scientific contributions based on field observations, morphodynamic and hydrodynamic modeling and/or novel remote-sensing techniques. Contributions should be focused on beach and barrier morphodynamics, acting on time scales between short- and long-term periods (from days to centuries) and can involve micro-, meso-, and macrotidal environments.
Dr. Simone Simeone
Dr. Andrea Cucco
Dr. Giovanni De Falco
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- Coastal morphodynamics
- Beach morphology
- Coastal hydrodynamics
- Barrier morphodynamics
- Coastal processes
