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    • A ferrofluid-based sensor to measure bottom shear stresses under currents and waves 

      Musumerci, Rosaria; Marletta, Vincenzo; Sánchez-Arcilla Conejo, Agustín; Foti, Enrico (2018-02)
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      The measurement of the near-bottom flow characteristics is crucial to correctly understand coastal processes. To overcome some of the limits of present state-of-the-art measuring instruments, we propose a novel approach ...
    • A multivariate model of NW Mediterranean extreme events at present and future climate: hydrodynamics, energy and duration 

      Lin Ye, Jue; García León, Manuel; Gracia Garcia, Vicente; Sánchez-Arcilla Conejo, Agustín (International Association for Mathematical Geosciences (IAMG), 2015)
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      A statistical model of the future wave-extreme-climate under the RCP8.5 Climatic-Change scenario was required. Some variables of interest are energy, unitary energy, peak wave-period, duration, wave direction and growth-decay ...
    • A multivariate statistical model of extreme events: an application to the Catalan coast 

      Lin Ye, Jue; García León, Manuel; Gracia Garcia, Vicente; Sánchez-Arcilla Conejo, Agustín (2016-11)
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      Wave extreme events can be understood as the combination of Storm-intensity, Directionality and Intra-time distribution. However, the dependence structure among these factors is still unclear. A methodology has been developed ...
    • A new era of coastal services 

      Carniel, Sandro; Bonaldo, Davide; Sánchez-Arcilla Conejo, Agustín (2018-01)
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      The increasing quality and quantity of information provided by Copernicus (the European Union Programme funneling Earth Observation and in situ data into a broad set of information services) offer the possibility to analyse ...
    • A new generation of early warning systems for coastal risk: the iCoast project 

      Gracia Garcia, Vicente; García León, Manuel; Sánchez-Arcilla Conejo, Agustín; Gault, Jeremy; Oller, Pere; Fernández, Juan; Sairouni, Abdel; Cristofori, Elena; Toldrà, Ramón (2014)
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      A new coastal early warning system CEWS called iCoast for the NW Mediterranean Sea is under development. It is composed of three numerical modules: meteorological, hydrodynamic and morphodynamic. The CEWS is designed for ...
    • A review of potential physical impacts on harbours in the Mediterranean Sea under climate change 

      Sánchez-Arcilla Conejo, Agustín; Sierra Pedrico, Juan Pablo; Brown, Sally; Casas-Prat, Mercè; Nicholls, Robert J.; Lionello, Piero; Conte, Dario (2016-12)
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      The potential impact of climate change on port operations and infrastructures has received much less attention than the corresponding impact for beach systems. However, ports have always been vulnerable to weather extremes ...
    • A synergetic combination of measurements and models to assess renewable wind energy in semi enclosed domains 

      Sánchez-Arcilla Conejo, Agustín; González Marco, Daniel; Sospedra Iglesias, Joaquim; Sierra Pedrico, Juan Pablo; Espino Infantes, Manuel; Grifoll Colls, Manel; Pallarès Segarra, Esteve (SARTI, 2013)
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    • Absorption of water waves in a two-dimensional numerical flume 

      Castro Alves Oliveira, Tiago; Celigueta Jordana, Miguel Ángel; Gironella Cobos, Xavier; Oñate Ibáñez de Navarra, Eugenio; Sánchez-Arcilla Conejo, Agustín (Centro Internacional de Métodos Numéricos en Ingeniería (CIMNE), 2009)
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      In this work the absorption of water waves in a numerical wave flume is discussed in terms of performance and robustness. A general formulation for the analysis of fluidstructure interaction problems using the Particle ...
    • Adaptation under extreme events: predictive maintenance for risk reduction 

      Sánchez-Arcilla Rosanas, Agustín; Altomare, Corrado; González Pérez, Manuel; Viñes Recasens, Manuel; Mösso Aranda, César; Gómez Aguar, Jesús Javier; Sánchez-Arcilla Conejo, Agustín (2022-11)
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      Increasing human and climatic pressures on coastal systems and their infrastructure has resulted in cumulative loses for ecosystem services (e.g. Sanchez-Arcilla et al, 2022) and increasing degradation of coastal and ...
    • An analysis of nearshore profile and bar development under large scale erosive and accretive waves 

      Sánchez-Arcilla Conejo, Agustín; Cáceres Rabionet, Iván (2018-04)
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      Typical morphodynamic laboratory tests have been carried out at small scales and without sufficient coverage or resolution. These limitations, applying particularly to accretive tests, have obstructed reliable observations ...
    • An insightful tool for the response of armor block breakwaters on impermeable bed combining numerical modeling techniques 

      Tagliafierro, Bonaventura; Altomare, Corrado; Mitsui, Jun; Domínguez Alonso, José Manuel; Crespo, Alejandro J.C.; Gómez Gesteira, Moncho; Hernaez, Mario; Sánchez-Arcilla Conejo, Agustín (International Society of Ocean and Polar Engineers (ISOPE), 2023)
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      We aim to increase the efficiency of an open-source hydrodynamic model in investigating the structural performance of port infrastructure under high return period wave conditions, thus anticipating possible scenarios that ...
    • Analysis of current intensification in the NorthWest Mediterranean Shelf 

      Mestres Ridge, Marc; Grifoll Colls, Manel; Sánchez-Arcilla Conejo, Agustín (2016-02)
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      Flow intensification episodes lasting more than 12 h are observed occasionally at different locations along the Northwestern Mediterranean coast. In the last years, these pulses have hindered ship operations outside the ...
    • Analysis of the influence of river discharge and wind on the Ebro turbid plume using MODIS-Aqua and MODIS-Terra data 

      Fernandez Novoa, D; Mendes, R; De Castro, M; Dias, J. M; Sánchez-Arcilla Conejo, Agustín; Gomez Gesteira, Moncho (2015-02)
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      The turbid plume formed at many river mouths influences the adjacent coastal area because it transports sediments, nutrients, and pollutants.; The effects of the main forcings affecting the Ebro turbid plume were analyzed ...
    • Análisis y previsión de fenómenos naturales peligrosos 

      Tolosana Delgado, Raimon; Egozcue Rubí, Juan José; Ortego Martínez, María Isabel; Sánchez-Arcilla Conejo, Agustín (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Escola Tècnica Superior d'Enginyers de Camins Canals i Ports de Barcelona, 2011-11-16)
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      La toma de decisiones referentes al diseño o en sistemas de alerta requieren el estudio de las acciones externas (frecuentemente meteorológicas), la descripción probabilista del sistema (vulnerabilidad, susceptibilidad) ...
    • Assessing nature based solutions for managing coastal bays 

      Fernández-Pedrera Balsells, Marta; Mestres Ridge, Marc; Fernández Tejedor, Margarita; Cerralbo Peñarroya, Pablo; Espino Infantes, Manuel; Grifoll Colls, Manel; Sánchez-Arcilla Conejo, Agustín (2020-05)
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      This work investigates the hydrodynamic response of two small and shallow bays located in the Ebro Delta, in order to solve the problems affecting mussel farms, such as the high temperatures reached in the summer period ...
    • Assessing the coastal protection role of seagrass meadows along a barrier beach, southern Romanian coast 

      Dinu, Irina; Monclús, Albert; Gracia Garcia, Vicente; García León, Manuel; Lin Ye, Jue; Stanica, Adrian; Sánchez-Arcilla Conejo, Agustín (2023-02)
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      The presence of seagrass along the Romanian coast is currently seen as an important component of the marine ecosystem. Moreover, seagrass meadows play an additional wave energy dissipation role that has also to be considered ...
    • Assessment of aquaculture rafts exposure at river-borne substances using numerical modelling 

      Chen, Yang; Grifoll Colls, Manel; Espino Infantes, Manuel; Fernández Tejedor, Margarita; Fernández-Pedrera Balsells, Marta; Sánchez-Arcilla Conejo, Agustín (2022)
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      Coastal bays and estuaries with aquaculture activity may show spatial variability on the exposure at river-borne substances such as nutrients, pesticides or pollutants. In function of the relative geographical position of ...
    • Assessment of green measures as coastal defences using numerical models 

      Sánchez-Arcilla Conejo, Agustín; García León, Manuel; Gracia Garcia, Vicente; Sierra Pedrico, Juan Pablo (2017)
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      Climate change may reduce the performance and design life of “grey” coastal engineering interventions. Green solutions can be combined with present infrastructures providing extra flexibility to adapt our present beaches ...
    • Assessment of harbour inoperability and adaptation cost due to sea level rise: application to the port of Tangier-Med (Morocco) 

      Jebbad, Raghda; Sierra Pedrico, Juan Pablo; Mösso Aranda, César; Mestres Ridge, Marc; Sánchez-Arcilla Conejo, Agustín (2022-01)
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      This paper intends to assess the potential impacts of the future SLR on the operability of berthing structures and to estimate in monetary terms the adaptation costs to it. To do this, three scenarios of SLR are considered, ...
    • Beach profile changes induced by surrogate Posidonia Oceanica: laboratory experiments 

      Astudillo Gutiérrez, Carlos Salvador; Gracia Garcia, Vicente; Cáceres Rabionet, Iván; Sierra Pedrico, Juan Pablo; Sánchez-Arcilla Conejo, Agustín (2022-08)
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      New flume experiments with surrogate seagrass meadows are presented. The experiments included the creation of a full-scale and realistic Posidonia Oceanica model to evaluate the effect over wave attenuation, sediment ...