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Impact of mean sea-level rise on the long-term evolution of a mega-nourishment

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Ribas, Francesca, Portos-Amill, Laura, Falqués, Albert, Arriaga, Jaime, Marcos, Marta, Ruessink, Gerben·2023·Climatic Change
DOI 10.1007/s10584-023-03503-6

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Mean sea-level rise (MSLR) will induce shoreline recession, increasing the stress on coastal systems of high socio-economic and environmental values. Localized mega-nourishments are meant to alleviate erosion problems by diffusing alongshore over decades and thus feeding adjacent beaches. The 21-st century morphological evolution of the Delfland coast, where the Sand Engine mega-nourishment was built in 2011, was simulated with the Q2Dmorfo model to assess the Sand Engine capacity to protect the area against the effects of MSLR. The calibrated and validated model was forced with historical wave and sea-level data and MSLR projections until 2100 corresponding to different Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP2.6, RCP4.5 and RCP8.5). Results show that the Sand Engine diffusive trend will continue in forthcoming decades, with the feeding effect to adjacent beaches being less noticeable from 2050 onward. Superimposed to this alongshore diffusion, MSLR causes the shoreline to recede because of both passive-flooding and a net offshore sediment transport produced by wave reshaping and gravity. The existing feeding asymmetry enforces more sediment transport to the NE than to the SW, causing the former to remain stable whilst the SW shoreline retreats significantly, especially from 2050 onward. Sediment from the Sand Engine does not reach the beaches located more than 6 km to the SW, with a strong shoreline and profile recession in that area, as well as dune erosion. The uncertainties in the results are dominated by those related to the free model parameters up to 2050 whilst uncertainties in MSLR projections prevail from 2050 to 2100.

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Ribas, F., Portos-Amill, L., Falqués, A., Arriaga, J., Marcos, M., & Ruessink, G.
Affiliations
  • Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (ES)
  • Delft University of Technology (NL)
  • Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (ES)
  • Utrecht University (NL)
Corresponding author
Ribas, Francesca
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Venue
Climatic Change
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2023-05
Volume
176
Issue
5
ISSN
  • 0165-0009 (ISSN-L)
  • 1573-1480
DOI
10.1007/s10584-023-03503-6
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  • Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Gobierno de España (RTI2018-093941-B-C33, RTI2018-093941-B-C31)
  • Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Earth-Surface Processes › Coastal and Marine Dynamics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Earth-Surface Processes › Aquatic and Environmental Studies
Keywords
mean sea level rise, mega-nourishment, Sand Engine, beach nourishment, shoreline recession, coastal erosion, alongshore sediment transport, sediment diffusion, RCP scenarios, sea level projections, dune erosion

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