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Post-storm geomorphic recovery and resilience of a prograding coastal dune system
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posted on 2019-02-04, 14:41 authored by Joanna BullardJoanna Bullard, David Ackerley, Jonathan MillettJonathan Millett, Jim Chandler, Anne-Lise MontreuilGeomorphic resilience is the capacity of a system to recover to pre-disturbance conditions following
a perturbation. The 2013/14 Atlantic winter storm period had extensive geomorphological impacts
and provides an opportunity to assess coastline resilience. This paper uses high spatio-temporal
resolution data to quantify the beach-dune response and subsequent recovery of a prograding
coastline following the 5 December 2013 North Sea storm surge. It demonstrates that despite the
high water levels and destructive nature of the storm, the beach-dune system recovered sediment
rapidly over the first post-storm year. Within four years the dune advance had exceeded the
seawards position expected based on long-term coastal trends but had not yet recovered the pre storm foredune profile. Cumulative evidence from numerous European locations suggests one of
the stormiest periods on record triggered only a minor disturbance to what appear to be highly
resilient beach-dune systems.
Funding
The research was funded by NERC Urgency Grant (NE/M000052/1) and Loughborough University.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Geography and Environment
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Environmental Research CommunicationsCitation
BULLARD, J.E. ... et al., 2019. Post-storm geomorphic recovery and resilience of a prograding coastal dune system. Environmental Research Communications, 1: 011004.Publisher
© The authors. Published by IOP PublishingVersion
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2019-01-28Publication date
2019-02-12Notes
This is an Open Access Article. It is published by IOP under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ISSN
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- en