Browsing by Author "Gracia García, Vicente"
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A methodological framework for selecting an optimal sediment source within a littoral cell
(2021-10)
Article
Open AccessOne of the most used measures to counteract coastal erosion is beach nourishment. It has advantages with respect to the use of rigid structures that sometimes entail non desired impacts on the surrounding areas. However, ... -
A multivariate model of NW Mediterranean extreme events at present and future climate: hydrodynamics, energy and duration
(International Association for Mathematical Geosciences (IAMG), 2015)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyA 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
(2016-11)
Article
Open AccessWave 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 generation of early warning systems for coastal risk: the iCoast project
(2014)
Conference lecture
Open AccessA 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 ... -
Assessing the coastal protection role of seagrass meadows along a barrier beach, southern Romanian coast
(2023-02)
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Open AccessThe 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 ... -
Assessing the impact of sea level rise on port operability using LiDAR-derived digital elevation models
(2019-10)
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Open AccessOne of the main consequences of climate change is the sea level rise (SLR), which impacts coastal areas affecting many infrastructures, particularly seaports, whose operations may be jeopardized. In this paper, a methodological ... -
Assessment of green measures as coastal defences using numerical models
(2017)
Conference report
Open AccessClimate 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 ... -
Barriers and enablers for upscaling coastal restoration
(Elsevier, 2022-12)
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Open AccessCoastal restoration is often distrusted and, at best, implemented at small scales, which hampers its potential for coastal adaptation. Present technical, economic and management barriers stem from sectoral and poorly ... -
Beach profile changes induced by surrogate Posidonia Oceanica: laboratory experiments
(2022-08)
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Open AccessNew 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 ... -
Breaching of a barrier beach under extreme events: the role of morphodynamic simulations
(Coastal Education Research Foundation (CERF), Coastal Processes Research Group, School of Marine Science and Engineering, Plymouth University, 2013)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyA study of three breaching episodes of the Trabucador barrier beach (Spanish Mediterranean coast) is presented. The analysis is done from a modeling perspective using XBEACH and SWAN. The morphodynamic model (XBEACH) has ... -
Coastal adaptation and uncertainties: the need of ethics for a shared coastal future
(Frontiers Media, 2021-09)
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Open AccessCoastal hydro-morphodynamics present significant uncertainties, one order of magnitude larger for sediment transport than for the driving hydrodynamics. Met-ocean factors (waves, currents and levels essentially) are normally ... -
Coastal adaptation pathways and tipping points for typical Mediterranean beaches under future scenarios
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2024-07)
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Open AccessCoastal zones experience increasing climatic and human pressures, which lead to growing risks and tipping points (TPs) under future scenarios and natural resource scarcity. To avoid crossing TPs with irreversible coastal ... -
Coastal ECO Research projects
(2022-10-19)
Conference lecture
Open AccessEn aquest Research Café es presenten projectes on la tecnologia es posa al servei dels mars i els oceans, i que estan lligats amb els objectius ODS Vida Submarina i Acció pel clima. -
Coastal flooding and erosion under a changing climate: implications at a low-lying coast (Ebro delta)
(2020-02)
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Open AccessEpisodic coastal hazards associated to sea storms are responsible for sudden and intense changes in coastal morphology. Climate change and local anthropogenic activities such as river regulation and urban growth are raising ... -
Coastal sustainability for uncertain futures: a Spanish Mediterranean case from the RISES-AM- project
(2015)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyThis document presents the impacts of future climatic conditions as a function of coastal typology. The impact assessment is carried out at decadal and storm scales showing how such a combination produces the worst levels ... -
Effects of ultra-porous 3D printed reefs on wave kinematics
(2016-03)
Conference lecture
Restricted access - publisher's policyPresent 3D printing technology allows the efficient design and construction of structures with complex shapes and high porosity satisfying biological and coastal protection demands. In this case, an array of ultra-porous ... -
El hemidelta Sur del Llobregat: un sistema natural controlado por la acción humana
(Instituto de Ciencias del Mar, 2019)
Conference report
Open AccessLa evolución reciente del hemidelta Sur del Llobregat (Barcelona) es un claro ejemplo de sistema natural dominado por la acción del hombre. Las necesidades de ocupación de la llanura y frente deltaico junto con la regulación ... -
Evaluating barrier beach protection with numerical modelling: a practical case
(Elsevier, 2024-08)
Article
Open AccessEmbryonic dunes, continuous dunes and classical beach nourishment are tested as soft coastal protection measures in the vulnerable Trabucador barrier beach located in the NW Mediterranean Sea against different storm ... -
Evaluation of transient defence measures against storms
(2015)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyTransient Defence Measures (TDM) are defined as actions that can be taken in advance in the coastal zone in order to reduce the impacts of an specific forecasted storm event. The design of such transient works requires ... -
First considerations on environmental friendly solutions to protect the southern Romanian coast
(GeoEcoMar, 2018-12)
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Open AccessThe aim of this work is to assess the effect of a nature-based solution for reducing wave heights on the Southern Romanian coast. Apart from investigating the presence of seagrass from the environmental point of view, there ...
