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    • Beach profile changes induced by surrogate Posidonia Oceanica: laboratory experiments 

      Astudillo Gutiérrez, Carlos Salvador; Gracia García, 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 ...

    • Breaching of a barrier beach under extreme events: the role of morphodynamic simulations 

      Gracia García, Vicente; García León, Manuel; Grifoll Colls, Manel; Sánchez-Arcilla Conejo, Agustín (Coastal Education Research Foundation (CERF), Coastal Processes Research Group, School of Marine Science and Engineering, Plymouth University, 2013)
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      A 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 ...

    • Challenges for sustained observing and forecasting systems in the Mediterranean sea 

      Tintoré, Joaquín; Pinardi, Nadia; Álvarez Fanjul, Enrique; Sánchez-Arcilla Conejo, Agustín (2019-09-13)
      Article
      Open Access
      The Mediterranean community represented in this paper is the result of more than 30 years of EU and nationally funded coordination, which has led to key contributions in science concepts and operational initiatives. Together ...

    • Characterization of bottom sediment resuspension events observed in a micro-tidal bay 

      Grifoll Colls, Manel; Cerralbo Peñarroya, Pablo; Guillén Aranda, Jorge; Espino Infantes, Manuel; Boye Hansen, Lars; Sánchez-Arcilla Conejo, Agustín (2019-03)
      Article
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      In this study we investigate the variability in near-bottom turbidity in Alfacs Bay (in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea). The bay is characterized by a micro-tidal environment and seiching activity that may lead to flow ...

    • Checking model-data weather hazard occurrence fit in the context of climate change 

      Tolosana Delgado, Raimon; Ortego Martínez, María Isabel; Egozcue Rubí, Juan José; Sánchez-Arcilla Conejo, Agustín (2011)
      Conference report
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      In climate change impact studies it is common to run a given response model (from ecosystem changes to wavestorm or landslide occurrence) nested into one of the available long-term Global or Regional Circulation Models ...

    • Classifying wave forecasts with model-based geostatistics and the Aitchison distribution 

      Tolosana Delgado, Raimon; Egozcue Rubí, Juan José; Sánchez-Arcilla Conejo, Agustín; Gómez Aguar, Jesús Javier (2010)
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    • Climate change in a Point-Over-Threshold model: an example on ocean-wave-storm hazard in NE Spain 

      Tolosana Delgado, Raimon; Ortego Martínez, María Isabel; Egozcue Rubí, Juan José; Sánchez-Arcilla Conejo, Agustín (2010-09-27)
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      A reparametrization of the Generalized Pareto Distribution is here proposed. It is suitable to parsimoniously check trend assumptions within a Point-Over-Threshold model of hazardous events. This is based on considerations ...

    • CMEMS-based coastal analyses: conditioning, coupling and limits for applications 

      Sánchez-Arcilla Conejo, Agustín; Staneva, Joanna; Cavaleri, Luigi; Espino Infantes, Manuel; Mestres Ridge, Marc (2021-03)
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      Recent advances in numerical modeling, satellite data, and coastal processes, together with the rapid evolution of CMEMS products and the increasing pressures on coastal zones, suggest the timeliness of extending such ...

    • Coastal adaptation and uncertainties: the need of ethics for a shared coastal future 

      Sánchez-Arcilla Conejo, Agustín; Gracia García, Vicente; Mösso Aranda, César; Cáceres Rabionet, Iván; González Marco, Daniel; Gómez Aguar, Jesús Javier (Frontiers Media, 2021-09)
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      Coastal 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 

      Sánchez-Arcilla Rosanas, Agustín; Gracia García, Vicente; Sánchez-Arcilla Conejo, Agustín (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2024-07)
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      Coastal 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 ocean forecasting in Spanish ports: the SAMOA operational service 

      García Sotillo, Marcos; Cerralbo Peñarroya, Pablo; Lorente Jiménez, Pablo; Grifoll Colls, Manel; Espino Infantes, Manuel; Sánchez-Arcilla Conejo, Agustín; Álvarez Fanjul, Enrique (2020-01)
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      SAMOA (Sistema de Apoyo Meteorológico y Oceanográfico de la Autoridad Portuaria) is the latest initiative of Puertos del Estado, the Spanish Public State Port Agency, to enhance the delivery of user-customised operational ...

    • Coastal sustainability for uncertain futures: a Spanish Mediterranean case from the RISES-AM- project 

      Sánchez-Arcilla Conejo, Agustín; Sierra Pedrico, Juan Pablo; Gracia García, Vicente; García León, Manuel; Jiménez Quintana, José Antonio; Mösso Aranda, César; Valdemoro Garcia, Herminia (2015)
      Conference report
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      This 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 ...

    • Comparison between nested grids and unstructured grids for a high-resolution wave forecasting system in the western Mediterranean sea 

      Pallarès López, Elena; López Marco, Jaime; Espino Infantes, Manuel; Sánchez-Arcilla Conejo, Agustín (2017-01)
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      Traditionally wave modelling uses a downscaling process by means of successive nested grids to obtain high-resolution wave fields near the coast. This supposes an uncertain error due to internal boundary conditions and a ...

    • Cruise passenger impacts on mobility within a port area: case of the Port of Barcelona 

      Ros Chaos, Sergio; Pino Roca, D; Saurí Marchán, Sergi; Sánchez-Arcilla Conejo, Agustín (2018-03)
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      Cruise tourism has grown rapidly worldwide over the past 30 years. This increase in cruise passengers has brought a set of economic, socio-cultural, and environmental impacts. In a port context, it is reflected in mobility ...

    • Desarrollo de una herramienta operacional de control de la calidad del agua en zonas portuarias mediante simulación numérica y observaciones 

      Sánchez-Arcilla Conejo, Agustín; Espino Infantes, Manuel; Sierra Pedrico, Juan Pablo; García Sotillo, Marcos; Álvarez Fanjul, Enrique; Romo, Javier; Solé, Xavier; Basora, Joan; Hernáez, Mario; Grifoll Colls, Manel; Jordà Sánchez, Gabriel (2008-06)
      Article
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      El trabajo que se presenta se desarrolló dentro de un Convenio de Colaboración entre Puertos del Estado, las AAPP de Barcelona, Tarragona y Bilbao y el Laboratorio de Ingeniería Marítima de la UPC (LIM/UPC) y es la base ...

    • Developments and application of an offline coupling for armor block breakwaters on impermeable bed 

      Tagliafierro, Bonaventura; Altomare, Corrado; Sánchez-Arcilla Conejo, Agustín; Domínguez Alonso, José Manuel; Crespo, Alejandro J.C.; Gómez-Gesteira, Moncho (University of Manchester, 2023)
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      This paper proposes an optimization strategy that can be used in open-source hydrodynamic model to reduce the computational cost of simulations that aim to investigate the structural performance of port and coastal ...

    • Developments in acoustics for studying wave-driven boundary layer flow and sediment dynamics over rippled sand-beds 

      Thorne, Peter D.; Hurther, David; Cooke, Richard D.; Cáceres Rabionet, Iván; Barraud, P.A.; Sánchez-Arcilla Conejo, Agustín (2018-08)
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      The processes of sediment entrainment, transport, and deposition over bedforms are highly dynamic and temporally and spatially variable. Obtaining measurements to understand these processes has led to ongoing developments ...

    • Effect of wave storm representation on damage measurements of breakwaters 

      Marzeddu, Andrea; Oliveira, Tiago C.A.; Sánchez-Arcilla Conejo, Agustín; Gironella Cobos, Xavier (2020-03)
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      In this work, the effects of storm representation on damage measurements of a breakwater are studied in a small-scale physical wave flume. In particular, a two-layer breakwater with cubic armor units randomly placed is ...

    • Effects of ultra-porous 3D printed reefs on wave kinematics 

      Frau, Lorenzoi; Marzeddu, Andrea; Dini, Enrico; Gracia García, Vicente; Gironella Cobos, Xavier; Eriolo, Alessio; Zomparelli, Alessandro; Sánchez-Arcilla Conejo, Agustín (2016-03)
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      Present 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 canal de ensayos CIEM del Laboratorio de Ingeniería Marítima (LIM) de la Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos de Barcelona 

      Sánchez-Arcilla Conejo, Agustín; Gómez Aguar, Jesús Javier; Gironella Cobos, Xavier (1994-05)
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      Los ensayos en canal permiten optimizar el diseño estructural y evaluar el impacto asociado a actuaciones en la costa. Un subproducto adicional es la calibración y validación de modelos numéricos. La reducción de costes ...