“…Maia, Freire, & Lacerda, 2005;Forman, Nordt, Gomez, & Pierson, 2009), of the moisture content of the sands (e.g. Sherman and Bauer, 1993;Tsoar and Arens, 2003;Potter and Weigand, 2016) and of the wind direction related to the shoreline orientation (Carvalho et al, 2016). It is considered that wind velocities of the order of 3 m/s are able to mobilize medium sands (Paula, Morais, Baptista, Gomes, & Pinheiro, 2016), and that if conditions are suitablee.g.…”