Beach slope is a critical parameter to, e.g., beach safety, wave reflection at the coast and longshore transport rate. However, it usually considered as time-invariant profile-average parameter. Here, we apply state-of-the-art equilibrium model to hindcast variability from time scales of days years high-energy meso-macrotidal sandy Truc Vert, southwest France. We use 9 bimonthly surveys compute...

Cross-shore sediment transport is one of the effective factors in erosion and sedimentation, and affects dynamics of the beach profile in coastal areas. Furthermore, sandbar migration due to cross-shore sediment transport mostly effects beach nourishment, displacement of pollutions trapped in sediments, and organism and plants’ lives.  In this manuscript, sandbar migration due to cro...

Although beach soccer has become increasingly popular in recent years very little scientific research has been conducted into the sport. A pilot study was carried out with the aim of examining the physiological (heart rate) and physical (motion analysis) responses of beach soccer players during competitive matches. Ten players (age 25.5 ± 0.5 years; height 1.80 ± 0.08 m; weight 78.2 ± 5.6 kg.) ...

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...

Implementing shoreface nourishment is an effective method to protect sandy beaches. A better understanding of the equilibrium mechanism nourishments necessary for coastal engineering designs and constructions. Two experiments on beach profile are carried out under mild wave conditions reflective intermediate beach. It observed that increases local height strengthens nonlinearity by its shallow ...

A crawling Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) has been developed for scientific activities within coastal and estuarine regions of the ocean for multiple research activities such as environmental impact assessment and integrated coastal zone management. The Modular Amphibious Research Crawler (MARC-1) ROV is designed to operate underwater and in the surfzone to a depth of five meters. The vehicle ...

The present paper reports the observations of waves and beach morphology at two sites in Japan. One is the HORS Research Pier and the other is the Niigata coast where multiple shore protection structures have been installed. An X-band nautical radar system was employed for this study. Radar echo images provided instantaneous distributions of wave crests and waterlines along the shore. They were...

The long-term goals of this research are: (i) to identify all relevant physical processes that participate in and contribute significantly to sediment transport in nearshore coastal waters; (ii) to investigate each of the identified processes in order to understand the underlying physics in a quantitative manner; (iii) to develop simple predictive models for each process; and (iv) to incorporat...