Beach Response to a Shoreface Nourishment (Aveiro, Portugal)

Mendes et al 2021

Beach Response to a Shoreface Nourishment (Aveiro, Portugal)

In Aveiro (NW coast of Portugal), a coastal monitoring programme was carried out in sequence of a shoreface nourishment intervention (over than 2 M m3) performed in 2020. In this programme, almost one year of biweekly subaerial topographies and quarterly bathymetric surveys have been collected along a 10 km coastal stretch between June 2020 and June 2021. In this study, topographic and bathymetric surveys were analysed to assess the expectation that if the shoreface nourishment is located in sufficiently shallow water depths, its landward movement will feed adjacent beaches and, consequently, increase the subaerial beach volume. Results show that the subaerial beach volume is well correlated with the 1.05 m (above MSL) isoline displacement through time. While the seaward limit of the shoreface nourishment moved landwards about 200 m, the shoreline proxy (isoline of 1.05 m) displayed a maximum seaward displacement of 60 m. The displacement of the shoreline proxy was highly variable in space, along the 10 km coastal stretch, and also in time, during storm events.

Mendes, D.; Pais-Barbosa,J.; Baptista, P.; Silva, P.A.; Bernardes,C.; Pinto, C. (2021), “Beach Response to a Shoreface Nourishment (Aveiro, Portugal)”; J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2021, 9, 1112.

https://doi.org/10.3390/ jmse9101112