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Jose M. Horrillo-Caraballo, Harshinie Karunarathna, Shun-qi Pan, Dominic E. Reeve. 2016: Performance of a data-driven technique to changes in wave height and its effect on beach response. Water Science and Engineering, 9(1): 42-51. doi: 10.1016/j.wse.2016.02.006
Citation: Jose M. Horrillo-Caraballo, Harshinie Karunarathna, Shun-qi Pan, Dominic E. Reeve. 2016: Performance of a data-driven technique to changes in wave height and its effect on beach response. Water Science and Engineering, 9(1): 42-51. doi: 10.1016/j.wse.2016.02.006

Performance of a data-driven technique to changes in wave height and its effect on beach response

doi: 10.1016/j.wse.2016.02.006
Funds:  This work was supported by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (Grant No. NE/J005606/1), the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (Grant No. EP/C005392/1), and the Ensemble Flood Risk in a Changing Climate (EFRaCC) project funded by the British Council under its Global Innovation Initiative.
  • Received Date: 2015-06-29
  • Rev Recd Date: 2016-01-06
  • In this study the medium-term response of beach profiles was investigated at two sites: a gently sloping sandy beach and a steeper mixed sand and gravel beach. The former is the Duck site in North Carolina, on the east coast of the USA, which is exposed to Atlantic Ocean swells and storm waves, and the latter is the Milford-on-Sea site at Christchurch Bay, on the south coast of England, which is partially sheltered from Atlantic swells but has a directionally bimodal wave exposure. The data sets comprise detailed bathymetric surveys of beach profiles covering a period of more than 25 years for the Duck site and over 18 years for the Milford-on-Sea site. The structure of the data sets and the data-driven methods are described. Canonical correlation analysis (CCA) was used to find linkages between the wave characteristics and beach profiles. The sensitivity of the linkages was investigated by deploying a wave height threshold to filter out the smaller waves incrementally. The results of the analysis indicate that, for the gently sloping sandy beach, waves of all heights are important to the morphological response. For the mixed sand and gravel beach, filtering the smaller waves improves the statistical fit and it suggests that low-height waves do not play a primary role in the medium-term morphological response, which is primarily driven by the intermittent larger storm waves.

     

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