Beach response to a sequence of extreme storms

Abstract A sequence of daily beach surveys acquired over one month covering an area larger than 100,000 m 2 , was analyzed to study morphological changes resulting from a cluster of storms. The beach response was highly variable in both the cross- and alongshore. A cumulative storm effect was not observed, despite one storm being characterized by a 10-year return period that had significant wave height (H s ) of 8.1 m and a peak wave period (T p ) of 17 s. Instead, storms that can potentially cause significant erosion in terms of H s had a limited effect on the morphology because the large wave height was coupled to either neap tides, normally-incident short-waves ( f  > 0.04 Hz), or low levels of infragravity (0.004  f

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