Hello! Please help to find a simple cross-shore sandy beach evolution (erosion+accretion) model for using in day-week scale (i had initial and intermediate profiles (once at month), and 3 hr forcing factors - wave height, period, wave length etc.
I need to estimate beach dynamics between my surveys (primary for getting beach width and slope).
Thanks for your advice!
Without knowing your site location, I'd say you under sampled for what you need to do. I'd refer you to the US Army Corp of Engineers, Shore Protection Manual, Volume I, Chapter 4: Littoral Processes.
or
Willis, D.H. (1978): An Alongshore Current Beach Evolution Model.
National Research Council Canada, Hydraulics Laboratory Memorandum
HY-92, March 1978.
If I plotted that right, your location is on the South eastern section of the Baltic. That location has a fairly long fetch to the west. If you don't have access to any wave buoy or had an ADCP deployed on the bottom for information then you'd have to derive that from a Wind sensor that might have been located near your site. I have some clients who have had some of our Axys Wave buoys deployed in the Baltic, but they were more central or western, closer to Sweden and Poland. I'd refer you to the DHI (Danish Hydraulic Institute) in Copenhagen. Also, Van Oord, whose office is in the Netherlands, may have done some work in your region. Nortek AS (Norway) who makes ADCP for waves and currents also may have a client who has been working your area.
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