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| العنوان: |
Beach Response to Wave Forcing from Event to Inter-Annual Time Scales at Grand Popo, Benin (Gulf of Guinea). |
| المؤلفون: |
Abessolo Ondoa, Grégoire, Bonou, Frédéric, Tomety, Folly Serge, du Penhoat, Yves, Perret, Clément, Epiphane Degbe, Cossi Georges, Almar, Rafael |
| المصدر: |
Water (20734441); Jun2017, Vol. 9 Issue 6, p447, 13p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
BEACHES, SHORELINES, COASTAL changes, CLIMATOLOGY, STORMS |
| مستخلص: |
This paper assesses the morphological storm-event impact, seasonal cycles, trends of wave forcing, and beach's response at the coastal area of Grand Popo, Benin. Three and a half years' worth of data were collected from 2013 to 2016, using a video system calibrated with field data collected during a 10 day experiment. A comparison was carried out with Wavewatch III IOWAGA wave hindcast data. The along-shore-averaged shoreline position exhibited a seasonal pattern, which was related more to the average wave height than the average storm intensity. Storms occur in austral winter (June, July, August, and September). Based on 12 storms, the results revealed that the average storm duration was 1.6 days, with a mean erosion of 3.1 m. The average post-storm beach recovery duration was 15 days, and the average recovery rate was 0.4 m/day. The impact of storms was more or less amplified depending on the eroding and accreting periods of the wave climate. There was an inter-annual eroding trend of about -1.6 m/year, but the causes of this trend could not be explained. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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