Introduction to Subaerial Beach

This study evaluates spatiotemporal variability and cumulative impacts on the subaerial beach from four major tropical storms of varying intensity and proximity impacting the study area of Palm Beach County, Florida, during the 2020 Atlantic Basin Hurricane season.

On the sediment-abundant beaches, the cross-shore sediment transport towards a submerged area leads to a lowering in the subaerial beach level and a contemporaneous shoreline retreat in response to storms.

In light of these findings, simultaneous restoration/creation of backbarrier wetlands in conjunction with subaerial beach renourishment may be an effective form of increasing the resiliency of low-lying barriers subject to frequent overwashing.

To this end, in this study, subaerial beach profiles are classified through unsupervised learning and cluster analysis.

Meteorological variables and aeolian sand transport rates were simultaneously measured on the subaerial beach.

George Island's subaerial beach and foredune system and its respective short-term recovery.

The beach surveys (>100) cover from the subaerial beach (seaward from the existing foredune in 2015) to a 1.

The profile data set was analyzed to determine the subaerial beach evolution, including both the influence of cross-shore sediment transport related to storms and the longshore transport affected by the FRF research pier.

However, the choice of the most appropriate numerical model to predict subaerial beach erosion requires careful consideration of the strengths and limitations of each model, and the quality and quantity of field data available for both model calibration and prediction.

0 m; and during May–June: (4a) subaerial beach welding (unbarred beach) when a dynamic equilibrium reached; or (4b) terrace-bar formation (sandbar flattening) as a consequence of a lack of a dynamic equilibrium.

Monthly surveys of the subaerial beach were obtained at alongshore-oriented transects.

To this end, a spectral wave propagation model, a longshore sediment transport formulation and a one-line model are combined to obtain the final subaerial beach areas for three sea level rise scenarios: the present situation, an optimistic and a pessimistic projection.

To reach this objective, 193 foredune/subaerial beach profiles from along the northern coast of Spain that have characteristics close to equilibrium conditions were evaluated.