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Sediment Transport in Coastal Waters Water | Special Issue : Sediment Transport in Coastal Waters http://www.mdpi.com/journal/water/special_issues/coastal_waters Special Issue "Sediment Transport in Coastal Waters" A special issue of Water (/journal/water) (ISSN 2073-4441). Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2017) Special Issue Editor Guest Editor Dr. Sylvain Ouillon Institut de Recherche Pour le Développement (IRD), LEGOS, Université de Toulouse, 14 av. Edouard Belin, 31400 Toulouse, France Website (http://www.legos.obs-mip.fr/ouillon) | E-Mail () Interests: sediment dynamics, sediment processes; watershed; estuaries; coastal oceanography; effects of climate change and human activity on sediment budget; ocean color in coastal waters and applications; numerical modeling Special Issue Information Dear Colleagues, Globally, while land erosion has increased in the last decades, sediment input to the ocean has decreased. Sediment transport and distribution at the land-ocean interface has huge impacts on morphodynamics of estuaries, deltas and coastal zones, on water quality (and related issues such as aquaculture), on navigation and harbor capability, on recreation areas, etc. Scientific objectives must be achieved to deepen our knowledge on processes based on field surveys, modeling, space observation or experiments in laboratory, to refine the sediment budget (bedload and suspension) between compartments, and to improve our observation and modelling capacities. Sediment transport which is mainly driven by varying dynamical forcings (currents, tides, wind, waves, turbulence, stratification, density currents, etc.) in the estuary, in the ROFI zone, on the shelf or in canyons may also be affected by chemical and biological processes. In this Special Issue, we invite scientists working on different aspects of sediment transport, in muddy, sandy or mixed environments, to share their most recent results and give reviews or examples encompassing different aspects of sediment transport in coastal zones at different scales. Papers may deal with water and sediment analysis (including Particle Size Distribution), modeling, and remote sensing. Dr. Sylvain Ouillon Guest Editor Keywords sediment transport processes sediment budget suspension bed load estuaries coastal zones river plume nearshore processes numerical modeling remote sensing 1 Water | Special Issue : Sediment Transport in Coastal Waters http://www.mdpi.com/journal/water/special_issues/coastal_waters Published Papers (8 papers) Download All Papers (/journal/water/special_issues/coastal_waters/download) Research Open Access Article Beach Response to Wave Forcing from Event to Inter-Annual Time Scales at Grand Popo, Benin (Gulf of Guinea) by Grégoire Abessolo Ondoa, Frédéric Bonou, Folly Serge Tomety,Yves du Penhoat, Clément Perret, Cossi Georges Epiphane Degbe and Rafael Almar Water 2017, 9(6), 447; doi:10.3390/w9060447 Received: 31 March 2017 / Revised: 14 June 2017 / Accepted: 16 June 2017 / Published: 21 June 2017 PDF Full-text (/2073-4441/9/6/447/pdf) (2637 KB) | HTML Full-text (/2073-4441/9/6/447/htm) | XML Full-text (/2073-4441/9/6/447/xml) Open Access Feature Paper Article Shoreline Response to a Sequence of Typhoon and Monsoon Events by Rafael Almar, Patrick Marchesiello, Luis Pedro Almeida, Duong Hai Thuan, Hitoshi Tanaka and Nguyen Trung Viet Water 2017, 9(6), 364; doi:10.3390/w9060364 (http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w9060364) Received: 11 April 2017 / Revised: 16 May 2017 / Accepted: 18 May 2017 / Published: 23 May 2017 PDF Full-text (/2073-4441/9/6/364/pdf) (658 KB) | HTML Full-text (/2073-4441/9/6/364/htm) | XML Full-text (/2073-4441/9/6/364/xml) Open Access Feature Paper Article Shoreline Changes on the Wave-Influenced Senegal River Delta, West Africa: The Roles of Natural Processes and Human Interventions by Mamadou Sadio, Edward J. Anthony,Amadou Tahirou Diaw, Philippe Dussouillez, Jules T. Fleury, Alioune Kane,Rafael Almar and Elodie Kestenare Water 2017, 9(5), 357; doi:10.3390/w9050357 (http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w9050357) Received: 24 December 2016 / Revised: 10 April 2017 / Accepted: 12 May 2017 / Published: 19 May 2017 PDF Full-text (/2073-4441/9/5/357/pdf) (6100 KB) | HTML Full-text (/2073-4441/9/5/357/htm) | XML Full-text (/2073-4441/9/5/357/xml) Open Access Feature Paper Article Dynamics of Suspended Sediments during a Dry Season and Their Consequences on Metal Transportation in a Coral Reef Lagoon Impacted by Mining Activities, New Caledonia by Jean-Michel Fernandez, Jean-Dominique Meunier, Sylvain Ouillon, Benjamin Moreton, Pascal Douillet and Olivier Grauby Water 2017, 9(5), 338; doi:10.3390/w9050338 Received: 30 March 2017 / Revised: 8 May 2017 / Accepted: 8 May 2017 / Published: 10 May 2017 PDF Full-text (/2073-4441/9/5/338/pdf) (9969 KB) | HTML Full-text (/2073-4441/9/5/338/htm) | XML Full-text (/2073-4441/9/5/338/xml) Open Access Article Modelling Hydrology and Sediment Transport in a Semi-Arid and Anthropized Catchment Using the SWAT Model: The Case of the Tafna River (Northwest Algeria) by Amin Zettam, Amina Taleb, Sabine Sauvage, Laurie Boithias, Nouria Belaidi and José Miguel Sánchez-Pérez Water 2017, 9(3), 216; doi:10.3390/w9030216 (http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w9030216) Received: 15 December 2016 / Revised: 6 March 2017 / Accepted: 7 March 2017 / Published: 14 March 2017 Cited by 1 (/2073-4441/9/3/216#citedby) | PDF Full-text (/2073-4441/9/3/216/pdf) (5409 KB) | HTML Full-text (/2073-4441 /9/3/216/htm) | XML Full-text (/2073-4441/9/3/216/xml) Open Access Article The June 2016 Australian East Coast Low: Importance of Wave Direction for Coastal Erosion Assessment by Thomas R. Mortlock, Ian D. Goodwin, John K. McAneney and Kevin Roche Water 2017, 9(2), 121; doi:10.3390/w9020121 (http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w9020121) Received: 5 December 2016 / Revised: 24 January 2017 / Accepted: 6 February 2017 / Published: 14 February 2017 Cited by 1 (/2073-4441/9/2/121#citedby) | PDF Full-text (/2073-4441/9/2/121/pdf) (16394 KB) | HTML Full-text (/2073-4441 /9/2/121/htm) | XML Full- text (/2073-4441/9/2/121/xml) 2 Water | Special Issue : Sediment Transport in Coastal Waters http://www.mdpi.com/journal/water/special_issues/coastal_waters Open Access Article Statistical Analysis of the Spatial Distribution of Multi-Elements in an Island Arc Region: Complicating Factors and Transfer by Water Currents by Atsuyuki Ohta, Noboru Imai, Yoshiko Tachibana and Ken Ikehara Water 2017, 9(1), 37; doi:10.3390/w9010037 (http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w9010037) Received: 13 October 2016 / Revised: 23 December 2016 / Accepted: 5 January 2017 / Published: 10 January 2017 PDF Full-text (/2073-4441/9/1/37/pdf) (4344 KB) | HTML Full-text (/2073-4441/9/1/37/htm) | XML Full-text (/2073-4441/9/1/37/xml) Open Access Article Numerical Simulations of Suspended Sediment Dynamics Due to Seasonal Forcing in the Mekong Coastal Area by Vu Duy Vinh, Sylvain Ouillon, Nguyen Van Thao and Nguyen Ngoc Tien Water 2016, 8(6), 255; doi:10.3390/w8060255 (http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w8060255) Received: 27 April 2016 / Revised: 6 June 2016 / Accepted: 9 June 2016 / Published: 16 June 2016 Cited by 3 (/2073-4441/8/6/255#citedby) | PDF Full-text (/2073-4441/8/6/255/pdf) (5155 KB) | HTML Full-text (/2073-4441 /8/6/255/htm) | XML Full-text (/2073-4441/8/6/255/xml) Journal Contact MDPI AG Water Editorial Office (/journal/water/editorial_office) St. Alban-Anlage 66, 4052 Basel, Switzerland E-Mail: (mailto:water) Tel. +41 61 683 77 34 Fax: +41 61 302 89 18 Editorial Board (/journal/water/editors) Contact Details (/about/contact/) 3 water Article Beach Response to Wave Forcing from Event to Inter-Annual Time Scales at Grand Popo, Benin (Gulf of Guinea) Grégoire Abessolo Ondoa 1,2,*, Frédéric Bonou 2,3,4, Folly Serge Tomety 2,3,4, Yves du Penhoat 2,3,4, Clément Perret 2,3,4, Cossi Georges Epiphane Degbe 3 and Rafael Almar 2 1 Fishery Resources Laboratory, University of Douala, BP 2701 Douala, Cameroon 2 LEGOS (Université Paul Sabatier de Toulouse/CNRS/CNES/IRD), 31400 Toulouse, France; [email protected] (F.B.); [email protected] (F.S.T.); [email protected] (Y.d.P.); [email protected] (C.P.); [email protected] (R.A.) 3 Institut de Recherches Halieutiques et Océanologiques du Bénin, 03 BP 1665 Cotonou, Benin; [email protected] 4 International Chair in Mathematical Physics and Applications/Unesco Chair, University of Abomey-Calavi, 01 BP 526 Cotonou, Benin * Correspondence: [email protected]; Tel.: +237-699-76-73-34 Received: 31 March 2017; Accepted: 16 June 2017; Published: 21 June 2017 Abstract: This paper assesses the morphological storm-event impact, seasonal cycles, trends of wave forcing, and beach’s response at the coastal area of Grand Popo, Benin. Three and a half years’ worth of data were collected from 2013 to 2016, using a video system calibrated with field data collected during a 10 day experiment. A comparison was carried out with Wavewatch III IOWAGA wave hindcast data. The along-shore-averaged shoreline position exhibited a seasonal pattern, which was related more to the average wave height than the average storm intensity. Storms occur in austral winter (June, July, August, and September). Based on 12 storms, the results revealed that the average storm duration was 1.6 days, with a mean erosion of 3.1 m. The average post-storm beach recovery duration was 15 days, and the average recovery rate was 0.4 m/day. The impact of storms was more or less amplified depending on the eroding and accreting periods of the wave climate. There was an inter-annual eroding trend of about −1.6 m/year, but the causes of this trend could not be explained. Keywords: shoreline; waves forcing; storms; resilience; post-storm recovery; Bight of Benin; seasonal cycle; trend 1.
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