General longshore transport model

Tomasicchio, Giuseppe Roberto; D’Alessandro, Felice; Barbaro, Giuseppe; Malara, Giovanni

doi:10.1016/j.coastaleng.2012.07.004

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“…In particular, the frequency of occurrence is about 12%, the significant wave height is about 1m, the peak period is about 4s and the mean energy flux is slightly above 1600N/s. Finally, longshore sediment transport, estimated by the model of Tomasicchio et al [25], is about 120000 m 3 /year and is oriented from north to south. 5 RIVER SEDIMENT TRANSPORT To study the river sediment transport variations hydraulic structures, rainfall and temperature time series and river sediment contribution were analysed.…”

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Shoreline Evolution Near the Mouth of the Petrace River, Reggio Calabria, Italy

Borrello¹,

Foti²,

Puntorieri³

2017

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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The paper shows the shoreline evolution near the mouth of the Petrace River, which is located in the southern part of Calabria (Italy) and is the largest in the province of Reggio Calabria besides the Mesima River, whose watershed, however, mostly belongs to the province of Vibo Valentia. From a morphometric point of view, it has an area of over 420 km 2 , has a maximum height of 1900 m (originating in the massive of Aspromonte) and has an average height of about 550 m. From a hydrographic point of view, it has a main stream length of more than 40 km, has Horton's order of 7, and is characterized by a torrential regime with an annual average flow rate of about 8 m 3 /h. The river mouth is situated in the Tyrrhenian Sea between the municipalities of Palmi and Gioia Tauro. The shoreline evolution over the last 60 years has been studied using the QGIS software and analyzing the free cartography data of the National Cartographic Portal, the cartographies provided by the Calabria Basin Authority and satellite imagery provided by Google Earth. At the mouth of the Petrace River, both positive (in the last 10 years, in the order of tens of meters) and negative (between the 1950s and 1980s, in the order of hundreds of meters) variations of the shoreline have been observed. The paper also analyzes the main factors influencing the coastal dynamics, in particular the longshore and river transport, the deep-water wave climate, the rainfall regime, the variations in soil use and the presence of hydraulic structures.

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Shoreline Evolution Near the Mouth of the Petrace River, Reggio Calabria, Italy

Borrello¹,

Foti²,

Puntorieri³

2017

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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“…Longshore sediment transport has been evaluated by the Tomasicchio et al (2013) model. This model is based on the assumption that movement statistics are affected by obliquity only through an appropriate mobility index and that the units move during up-and down-rush with the same obliquity of breaking and reflected waves at the breaker depth (Lamberti and 10 Tomasicchio, 1997;Tomasicchio et al, 1994).…”

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“…It is important, however, to change the programme strategy and management planning to take into account all the above factors which 5 influence the equilibrium of coastal areas, and to plan to scale physiographic units (for example, a groyne may intercept a part of the sediments transported by waves and ensure a relative stability in the protected area but, at the same time, it may impoverish other areas behind the structure by shifting the problem of erosion). For this reason the phenomenon should be studied from a holistic point of view to include all the aspects involved (Barbaro et al, 2014a;Barbaro, 2016), in particular wave and weather climate analysis (Barbaro, 2007;Barbaro, 2011;Boccotti et al, 2011;Arena et al 2013, a, b, c;Barbaro 10 and Foti, 2013; Barbaro et al, 2013 a, b;Boccotti, 2015), and the contribution of longshore and river sediment transport (Tomasicchio et al, 2007;Tomasicchio et al, 2013;Barbaro et al, 2014b;Mandaglio et al, 2015Mandaglio et al, , 2016Tomasicchio et al. 2015).…”

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Erosive phenomena in the Kaulon archaeological site: origins and remedies

Barbaro

Siviglia²,

Foti

et al. 2017

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Abstract. This paper analyses the erosive phenomena which affected the coast of Monasterace Marina, in the province of Reggio Calabria (Italy), where the Kaulon archaeological site is located on a dune and which extends along the coast for 1 10 km. The phenomena which began in the last 50 years have been reinforced in the new millennium. Recently, a storm that occurred in early December 2013 eroded much of the beach and caused destruction of parts of the dune, with sliding of some archaeological finds onto the beach below. Following this storm, the Provincial Administration of Reggio Calabria in January 2014 built a barrier. It was only a temporary intervention however. In fact, in early February 2014 another storm caused further damage to the beach and to the site. As a result of this, in 2015, the Calabria Basin Authority proposed a 15 design solution which is part of the Master Plan of solutions to mitigate the risk of coastal erosion in Calabria.In this paper, all the possible causes of erosion are investigated through the analysis of different types of data: bathymetric, cartographic, geological, geomorphological, sedimentological, climatic and wave climatic. This analysis is carried out for different historical periods over the last 50 years. Also analysed were extreme sea storms, coastal and river sediment transport, land cover and average rainfall, in order to understand the erosive phenomena. Finally, the huge amount of data 20 obtained in this study was used to analyse the project proposal for different solutions to the problem.

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The General Longshore Transport (GLT) model (Tomasicchio et al, 2013) and the Van Rijn (2014) expression represent the only two available general formulae in literature for the estimation of longshore transport (LT) at sand, gravel and shingle beaches. The GLT model is based on an energy flux approach combined with an empirical relationship between the wave induced forcing and the number of moving elements.

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