This paper is a case history of coastal development in Camp Ellis, Saco, Maine. It begins in 1867 with dredging and jetty construction at the mouth of the Saco River to facilitate commercial navigation. Beach accretion resulting from tidal delta collapse was developed with residences before its ephemeral nature was recognized. Misunderstanding of the riverine source of beach sand and the net, n...

Mosso, C., Sierra, J. P., Gracia, V., Mestres, M., and Rodriguez, A. 2011. Short-term morphodynamic changes in a fetch limited beach at the Ebro delta (Spain), under low wave-energy conditions. Journal of Coastal Research, SI 64 (Proceedings of the 11th International Coastal Symposium), – . Szczecin, Poland, ISSN 0749-0208 Sandy beaches in fetch-limited environments are protected from large oce...

The morphological change of a headland bay beach—Tenby, West Wales, UK—was analysed over a 73-year period (1941–2014). Geo-referenced aerial photographs were used to extract shoreline positions which were subsequently compared with wave models based on storm event data. From the 1941 baseline, results showed shoreline change rates reduced over time with regression models enabling a prediction o...

A general formalism for computing the nonlinear interactions between triads of coastally-trapped gravity and vorticity waves is developed. An analysis of the linearized problem reveals that gravity (or edge) waves and vorticity (or shear) waves exist as members of the same non-Sturm-Liouville eigenvalue problem, with unstable shear waves representing the complex eigenvalue portion of the result...

This note studies the response of a simple linear baroclinic coastal-upwelling model to fluctuating longshore winds. Correlations between wind stress and velocities are computed explicitly. It is shown that these correlations depend primarily upon the wind-~ spectrum and that. for a realistic spectrum, the wind stress leads the longshore velocity by approximately one day. The computed correlati...