Sediment budget as a driver for sediment management at plumb beach, New York, USA: vectors of change and impacts

Autor:	Norbert P. Psuty, William J. Schmelz, Tanya M. Silveira, Andrea Spahn
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	Shore Hydrology geography geography.geographical_feature_category Ecology Sediment Oceanography Habitat Nature Conservation Erosion Environmental science Scale (map) Digital elevation model Sedimentary budget Nature and Landscape Conservation
Zdroj:	Journal of Coastal Conservation. 18:515-528
ISSN:	1874-7841 1400-0350
DOI:	10.1007/s11852-013-0293-9
Popis:	Persistent erosion at Plumb Beach, New York, USA, has been countered by a series of isolated actions to stabilize the shoreline. Sediment placed at the erosion site has quickly been removed and re-deposited in downdrift locations to the detriment of the existing habitats. In a renewed effort to better understand the dimensions of change at Plumb Beach, detailed spatial analysis of shoreline displacement, dune-beach profile evolution, and sediment budget has been undertaken through intensive surveying and comparisons of Digital Elevation Models. Products derived from these surveys establish that the sector of maximum erosion has shifted downdrift and that the scale of the changes is twice the volume exchange as previously estimated. Improved knowledge of the dimensions and spatial distributions of the changes is used to create a focused approach that is functioning within the scale of the local sediment budget and reducing its impacts.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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