Measurements of bed level oscillation cycles in the surf zone of a sandy beach

Arnaud, Gaël; Mory, Mathieu; Abadie, Stéphane; Morichon, Denis

doi:10.1109/oceans-spain.2011.6003636

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“…These observational shortcomings, combined with increasing demand for high‐frequency measurements, suggest that new autonomous observation approaches should be explored for obtaining better insight into bed‐level dynamics within the intertidal zones. With the advances in acquisition sensors, data‐loggers, and power supply systems, a wide variety of autonomous instruments have been developed and applied for bed‐level observations over the past decades, including the photo‐electronic erosion pin sensor (PEEP; Lawler 2008), resistive rods (Arnaud et al 2011), ALTUS (Ganthy et al 2013), and acoustic doppler velocimetry (ADV; Andersen et al 2006; Shi et al 2017, 2019; Pang et al 2021). Nonetheless, most of these instruments are associated with high unit cost and labor‐intensive deployment with accompanying external power and data‐logging systems.…”

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A comparison and coupling of two novel sensors for intertidal bed‐level dynamics observation

Willemsen

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Limnology & Ocean Methods

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Previous studies have revealed the importance of short-term bed-level change on the long-term development of intertidal ecosystems. One of the recent advancements in the short-term bed dynamics observation is the developments of laser-based surface elevation dynamics (LSED) and acoustic surface elevation dynamics (ASED) sensors. These two sensors are developed to automatically monitor tidally induced bed-level changes, and their measuring windows are during emergent and submerged periods, respectively. So far, there is no direct comparison or joint application of these two sensors. Therefore, in the current study, we first compare their observation precision in both laboratory and field conditions. Results show that both sensors' measurements are in good agreement with the manual measurements in the flume (R 2 > 0.99) and field (R 2 ≈ 0.70), indicating the applicability of each sensor in natural environment. Finally, a coupled system (i.e., combining LSED and ASED) is established in a mangrove wetland and both sensors show good agreement with each other (R 2 = 0.69). Results also demonstrate that the coupled observation system can well capture the bed-level change during emergent and submerged conditions, which provides detailed continuous data sets to study the bed-level dynamics within a tidal cycle. Furthermore, large-scale monitoring systems can also be established via mobile network module embedded in the sensor, providing real-time monitoring for bed-level changes, which is valuable to coastal morphological research and vital for detecting deterioration of coastal ecosystems and the services they provide to be able to apply adaptive management.

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A comparison and coupling of two novel sensors for intertidal bed‐level dynamics observation

Willemsen

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Limnology & Ocean Methods

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“…Although much attention has been paid to beach bed level changes, only a few researchers accurately obtained the intratidal variations of bed levels as their data on bed levels were commonly obtained during low tides (beach face was exposed in the air) or the way that the bed levels were measured using inserted rods would, to some extent, affect the accuracy of the bed level (Arnaud et al, 2011;Ge et al, 2017;Agredano et al, 2019;van Bemmelen et al, 2020). Hence, in this study, we carried out an observation to measure the intra-tidal variations of bed levels using an alternative way, i.e., acoustic Doppler velocimeter (ADV) measurement, within the surf zone from shoaling wave conditions to surf conditions on a meso-macro tidal beach, Yintan Beach, with the aims (1) to detect the characteristics of bed level changes at intra-tidal and tidal cycle scales, respectively and (2) to analyze the influence mechanism of intra-tidal bed level changes under different wave conditions.…”

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ADV-Based Investigation on Bed Level Changes Over a Meso-Macro Tidal Beach

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Beach intra-tidal bed level changes are of significance to coastal protection amid global climate changes. However, due to the limitation of instruments and the disturbance induced by wave motions superimposed on water levels, it was difficult to detect the high-frequency oscillation of the submerged beach bed level. In this study, an observation, lasting for 12 days and covering the middle tide to the following spring tide, was conducted on a meso-macro tidal beach, Yintan Beach, to simultaneously detect the characteristics and influence mechanism of bed level changes at intra-tidal and tidal cycle scales. The collected data included water depth, suspended sediment concentration (SSC), waves, high-frequency three-dimensional (3-D) velocity, and the distance of the seabed to the acoustic Doppler velocimeter (ADV) probe, which were measured by an optical backscatter sensor, two Tide & Wave Recorder-2050s, and an ADV, respectively. The results showed that the tidal cycle-averaged bed level decreased by 58.8 mm, increased by 12.6 mm, and increased by 28.9 mm during neap, middle, and spring tides in succession, respectively, compared with the preceding tidal regimes. The net erosion mainly resulted from large incident wave heights and the consequent strong offshore-directed sediment transport induced by undertows. Moreover, the variations in the bed level were more prominent during a neap to middle tides than during middle to spring tides, which were jointly caused by the wave-breaking probability regulated by water depth and the relative residence times of shoaling wave, breaker, and surf zones that were determined by relative tidal range. In terms of the intra-tidal bed level, it displayed an intra-tidal tendency of increase during floods and decrease during ebb tides, i.e., the intra-tidal bed level changes were controlled by water depth, which modulated the effects of waves on sediment resuspension and vertical sediment exchange. To be specific, waves and SSC were responsible for the intra-tidal bed level changes under low-energy wave conditions, while mean current and bedform exerted important influences on the variations of the intra-tidal bed level under moderate wave conditions, which broke the foregoing interrelation between bed level, waves, and SSC. This study, therefore, emphasizes the usage of ADV measurement to investigate bed level changes in sandy coasts.

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Measurements of bed level oscillation cycles in the surf zone of a sandy beach

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A comparison and coupling of two novel sensors for intertidal bed‐level dynamics observation

A comparison and coupling of two novel sensors for intertidal bed‐level dynamics observation

ADV-Based Investigation on Bed Level Changes Over a Meso-Macro Tidal Beach

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