Centro de Território, Ambiente e Construção
Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho
Campus de Azurém
4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal
Phone: + 351 253 510 200 (517 206)
Fax: + 351 253 510 217
Email: geral@ctac.uminho.pt
@inproceedings {2886, title = {Morphodynamic modelling of a gravel beach at the NW Portuguese coast}, journal = {IX Simp{\'o}sio sobre a Margem Ib{\'e}rica Atl{\^a}ntica}, year = {2018}, month = {2018-09-04 00:00:00}, pages = {309-310}, edition = {Departamento de Ci{\^e}ncias da Terra da Universidade de Coimbra}, address = {Coimbra}, abstract = {Besides exhibiting an erosion trend for decades, the NW coastal zone of Portugal, since the
}, keywords = {gravel beach, Monitoring, morphodynamics, Numerical modelling, Xbeach-G}, isbn = {978-989-98914-3-2}, author = {Gomes, A. and Pinho, J. L. S. and Granja, H.} }
end of 20th century, was the stage of a new phenomenon. Between Lima and C{\'a}vado rivers, previously
dissipative, sandy beaches transformed in mixed sand-gravel beaches with gravelly beach cusps (by the
end of 80{\textquoteright}s) and progressively convert in entire reflective gravel beaches (since 2000), though
maintaining the inherited dune systems on their backshore. This beach is being monitored since 2013
using DGPS, aerophotogrametic surveys and expedite gravel size characterization. Based on these
monitoring results a modeling work was carried out to simulate the beach morphodynamics, applying
XBeach-G software. The model was able to simulate the beach morphodynamics.
The Centre for Territory, Environment and Construction (CTAC) is a research unit of the School of Engineering of University of Minho (UMinho), recognised by the “FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia” (Foundation for Science and Technology), associated to the Department of Civil Engineering (DEC), with whom it shares resources and namely human resources.
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Centro de Território, Ambiente e Construção
Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho
Campus de Azurém
4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal
Phone: + 351 253 510 200 (517 206)
Fax: + 351 253 510 217
Email: geral@ctac.uminho.pt