Advances in the Study of Coastal Processes and Wave Hydrodynamics across Multiple Scales

Dear Colleagues,

Coasts are shaped by natural processes and anthropogenic interventions. They are exposed to subsidence and long-term processes (such as sea level rise, wave climate variability, and coastal sediment balance changes), some of which are linked to climate changes. Other natural processes act over short timescales (e.g., coastal storms, tectonic events), seasonal to annual timescales (e.g., summer/winter beach profile changes, beach accretion/erosion), over decades (e.g., El Niño Southern Oscillation), or even with unpredictable occurrences (e.g., hurricanes and tsunamis). Human actions generally affect the coast at multiple time and space scales. The accurate understanding of coastal processes at all these scales allows us to better inform coastal managers and reverse the negative impacts on the coast.

Wave hydrodynamics range from short-wave propagation, wave run-up and swash, short–long wave interaction, non-linear wave dynamics, and wave–current interactions, amongst others. The effect of these actions on sedimentary bottoms (mud, sand, and gravel), or at soft-rock coastal formations, govern sediment transport and coastal morphological changes.

This Special Issue is aimed at collecting and publishing the most recent advances in coastal processes and wave hydrodynamics. We welcome contributions from novel observational and experimental technologies, single and across-scale numerical modeling, theoretical developments, cross-shore and alongshore wave–current–sediment–morphology interactions and new datasets on wave hydrodynamics and coastal process experiments.

Dr. Márcia Lima
Dr. Francisco Sancho
Dr. Alec Torres-Freyermuth
Guest Editors

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