Post-storm beach and dune recovery: Implications for barrier island resilience

Houser, Chris; Wernette, Phillipe; Rentschlar, Elizabeth; Jones, Hannah; Hammond, Brianna; Trimble, Sarah

doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2014.12.044

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“…One category measures a single morphologic proxy (e.g. shoreline position (Morton et al, 1995;Thieler and Young, 1991;Farris and List, 2007;Houser et al, 2008;Hapke et al, 2010Hapke et al, , 2016Bramato et al, 2012;Phillips et al, 2017) or dune height (Houser et al, 2008(Houser et al, , 2015Stockdon et al, 2009;Wernette et al, 2016)); whereas the other simplifies spatial information along a cross-shore profile to an averaged value (e.g. beach volume and slope) (Morton et al, 1994;Stone et al, 2004;Stockdon et al, 2007;Houser and Hamilton, 2009;Mathew et al, 2010;Scott et al, 2016).…”

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“…Zeigler et al, 1959;Lee et al, 1998;Houser et al, 2008;Castelle et al, 2015;Suanez et al, 2015) to sandy beaches (Wright and Short, 1984;Sexton and Hayes, 1991;Morton, 2002;Priestas and Fagherazzi, 2010) and dunes (Saunders andDavidson-Arnott, 1990, Hesp, 2002;Psuty et al, 2005;McLean and Shen, 2006;Houser, 2012;Plant and Stockdon, 2012;Lentz et al, 2013;Houser et al, 2015;Weymer et al, 2013;Wilson et al, 2015). These studies assess change using a variety of beach metrics including island volume, shoreline and dune position, and profile topography from consecutive elevation surveys (i.e.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Despite the variety of metrics available to characterize coastal change, the post-storm recovery of dunes and beaches is less wellstudied than storm-driven change, but has received more attention recently (Weymer et al, 2013;Houser et al, 2015;Scott et al, 2016;Castelle et al, 2017;Phillips et al, 2017). In contrast to the timescales of event-driven changes which are fixed (i.e.…”

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“…Anthony et al, 2006;Houser, 2009), which themselves require different instrumentation and understanding to measure and track. Coupled with the spatially (and temporally) varying levels of recovery that occur from the shoreline to the dunes (Phillips et al, 2017;Castelle et al, 2017), the measurement, evaluation, or characterization of recovery is challenging, particularly in a way that is meaningful across sites or locations (Morton et al, 1994;Hesp, 2002;Houser and Hamilton, 2009;Mathew et al, 2010;Houser et al, 2015;Scott et al, 2016).…”

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Characterizing storm response and recovery using the beach change envelope: Fire Island, New York

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Hurricane Sandy at Fire Island, New York presented unique challenges in the quantification of storm impacts using traditional metrics of coastal change, wherein measured changes (shoreline, dune crest, and volume change) did not fully reflect the substantial changes in sediment redistribution following the storm. We used a time series of beach profile data at Fire Island, New York to define a new contour-based morphologic change metric, the Beach Change Envelope (BCE). The BCE quantifies changes to the upper portion of the beach likely to sustain measurable impacts from storm waves and capture a variety of storm and post-storm beach states. We evaluated the ability of the BCE to characterize cycles of beach change by relating it to a conceptual beach recovery regime, and demonstrated that BCE width and BCE height from the profile time series correlate well with established stages of recovery. We also investigated additional applications of this metric to capture impacts from storms and human modification by applying it to several post-storm historical datasets in which impacts varied considerably; Nor'Ida (2009), Hurricane Irene (2011), Hurricane Sandy (2012), and a 2009 community replenishment. In each case, the BCE captured distinctive upper beach morphologic change characteristic of these different beach building and erosional events. Analysis of the beach state at multiple profile locations showed spatial trends in recovery consistent with recent morphologic island evolution, which other studies have linked with sediment availability and the geologic framework. Ultimately we demonstrate a new way of more effectively characterizing beach response and recovery cycles to evaluate change along sandy coasts.Published by Elsevier B.V.

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“…These studies use field work, numerical and/or physical modelling to understand the system's ecological and physical dynamics (Alonso-Pérez et al, 2003;Houser et al, 2015;Lawson et al, 2007;Martins et al, 2001;Rivera-Guzmán et al, 2014). This paper focuses on the evaluation of the short-term vulnerability of a coastal lagoon, in terms of the erosion or accretion of the beach, the dynamics of the mouth of the lagoon and the hydrodynamics associated with the circulation patterns of the lagoon during winter storms, and the effects of anthropogenic interference in the system.…”

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Response of Empirically Managed Sites to Winter Storms. Case Study: La Mancha, Veracruz, Mexico

Chávez-Cerón¹,

Mendoza-Baldwin²,

Ramírez-Méndez³

et al. 2017

Int. Conf. Coastal. Eng.

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The coastal lagoon of La Mancha, Veracruz, Mexico is significantly affected by winter storms, meteorological events known as Nortes. Because of the influence of the wind on beach sediment transport and therefore on the dynamics of the inlet, four topographic surveys were made, three during winter storms (November 2013, November 2014 and February 2015) and one more in the dry season (May 2014). Physicochemical parameters at the mouth were registered during November 2014. The circulation patterns of the lagoon were obtained using the numerical model H2D. The beach morphology field data shows that the beach is resilient to the effects of winter storms, as long as sediment availability is not interrupted. The circulation patterns of the lagoon indicate that winds and waves induce the opening and closing of the inlet. The governing force in the lagoon patterns is the tidal oscillations, as corroborated by the physical parameters measured. However, these natural cycles are interrupted by the actions of the local fishermen, who empirically manage the lagoon opening the inlet once or twice a year. We found that the environmental resilience of the estuarine-lagoon system is susceptible to the change in the frequency of the opening of the mouth, so the anthropogenic interference threats the dynamics of the natural system.

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Stability and bistability in a one‐dimensional model of coastal foredune height

Goldstein

Moore

2016

JGR Earth Surface

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On sandy coastlines, foredunes provide protection from coastal storms, potentially sheltering low areas-including human habitat-from elevated water level and wave erosion. In this contribution we develop and explore a one-dimensional model for coastal dune height based on an impulsive differential equation. In the model, coastal foredunes continuously grow in a logistic manner as the result of a biophysical feedback and they are destroyed by recurrent storm events that are discrete in time. Modeled dunes can be in one of two states: a high "resistant-dune" state or a low "overwash-flat" state. The number of stable states (equilibrium dune heights) depends on the value of two parameters, the nondimensional storm frequency (the ratio of storm frequency to the intrinsic growth rate of dunes) and nondimensional storm magnitude (the ratio of total water level during storms to the maximum theoretical dune height). Three regions of phase space exist (1) when nondimensional storm frequency is small, a single high resistant-dune attracting state exists; (2) when both the nondimensional storm frequency and magnitude are large, there is a single overwash-flat attracting state; (3) within a defined region of phase space model dunes exhibit bistable behavior-both the resistant-dune and the low overwash-flat states are stable. Comparisons to observational studies suggest that there is evidence for each state to exist independently, the coexistence of both states (i.e., segments of barrier islands consisting of overwash-flats and segments of islands having large dunes that resist erosion by storms), as well as transitions between states.

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Post-storm beach and dune recovery: Implications for barrier island resilience

Cited by 168 publications

References 44 publications

Characterizing storm response and recovery using the beach change envelope: Fire Island, New York

Characterizing storm response and recovery using the beach change envelope: Fire Island, New York

Response of Empirically Managed Sites to Winter Storms. Case Study: La Mancha, Veracruz, Mexico

Stability and bistability in a one‐dimensional model of coastal foredune height

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