Accession Number:

AD1028704

Title:

Coastal Foredune Evolution, Part 1: Environmental Factors and Forcing Processes Affecting Morphological Evolution

Descriptive Note:

Technical Report

Corporate Author:

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Vicksburg United States

Personal Author(s):

• Brodie,Katherine L.
• Palmsten,Margaret L.
• Spore,Nicholas J.

Report Date:

2017-02-01

Pagination or Media Count:

10.0

Abstract:

This Coastal and Hydraulics Engineering Technical Note CHETN is the first of two CHETNs focused on improving technologies to forecast coastal foredune evolution. Part 1 summarizes the short-, meso-, and multi-decadal-timescale environmental factors and forcing processes that influence the morphodynamic evolution of coastal foredunes. Part 2 reviews modeling approaches to forecast these changes and develops a probabilistic modeling framework to calculate foredune evolution that includes both erosion and growth processes.

Descriptors:

• beach erosion
• geography
• coastal management
• coastal engineering
• dunes
• coastal regions
• shores
• environmental management

Subject Categories:

• Geography

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE