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Peer Review Status: | Refereed |
Title: | Contrasting geomorphological storm response from two adjacent shorefaces: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms |
Author(s): | Backstrom, Joni Jackson, Derek Cooper, Andrew Loureiro, Carlos |
Contact Email: | carlos.loureiro@stir.ac.uk |
Keywords: | shoreface storms sediment transport numerical modelling North Atlantic |
Issue Date: | Dec-2015 |
Citation: | Backstrom J, Jackson D, Cooper A & Loureiro C (2015) Contrasting geomorphological storm response from two adjacent shorefaces: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 40 (15), pp. 2112-2120. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.3788 |
Abstract: | Shorefaces play a critical role in cross-shore sediment transport between the beach and inner shelf, particularly during storm conditions. A comparison and examination of storm-driven sedimentary changes on two adjacent shorefaces in Northern Ireland, located only 5 km apart, revealed significantly different geomorphological responses. The steeper shoreface at West Strand responded with extensive sediment deposition across almost the entire shoreface, in contrast with the more dissipative and quasi- linear shoreface at Portstewart, which mostly showed nearshore bar changes. Results from the two sites, which have similar wave/wind characteristics and seabed sediments, suggest that: (i) cross-shore morphology, (ii) immediately previous (antecedent) shoreface morphodynamic behaviour and (iii) the presence, or lack of, offshore sand appear to be the primary controls on storm- driven sedimentary changes attributed to the high-energy event. |
DOI Link: | 10.1002/esp.3788 |
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