Sediment Transport in Coastal Waters

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
• Subjects: aggregates; analysis of variance (ANOVA); bathymetry; bed shear stress; bedload; Bight of Benin; biomass; climate change; Cluster analysis; coastal erosion; coastal hydraulics; coastal management; cohesive sediments; coral reef; delta vulnerability; dry season; East Coast Low; ERA hindcast waves; erosion; flocculation; fresh water runoff; geochemical map; geochemistry; hydrodynamics; lagoon; Langue de Barbarie spit; longshore sediment transport; Mahalanobis' generalized distances; mathematical model; Mekong; MODerate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS); monsoon; morphodynamics; mud; nearshore processes; New Caledonia; Ni mining; non cohesive sediments; non-cohesive to cohesive transition; North Africa; numerical modelling; oceanic water intrusion; oligotrophic lagoon; particle transfer process; post-storm recovery; recovery; reflectance; remote sensing reflectance; remote-sensing; resilience; river plume; river-mouth migration; sand; sand-mud mixture erosion; seabed colour; seagrass beds; seasonal cycle; sediment; sediment transport; sediment transport modelling; sediment trap; sedimentation; Senegal River delta; Seto Inland Sea; shoreline; soil erosion; South China Sea; Southeast Australia; spit breaching; storminess; storms; Support Vector Regression (SVR); suspended particulate matter; suspended sediment; SWAT; Tafna catchment; tidal current; trend; turbidity; typhoons; Vietnam; water scarcity; waves forcing; winter monsoon
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 The interface of 440,000 km long coastline in the world is subject to global change, with an increasing human pressure (land use, buildings, sand mining, dredging) and increasing population. Improving our knowledge on involved mechanisms and sediment transport processes, monitoring the evolution of sedimentary stocks and anticipating changes in littoral and coastal zones is essential for this purpose. The special issue of Water on “Sediment transport in coastal waters” gathers thirteen papers which introduce the current revolution in the scientific research related to coastal and littoral hydrosedimentary dynamics, and reflect the diversity of concerns on which research in coastal sediment transport is based, and current trends — topics and preferred methods — to address them.