Long-Term Analysis of Wave Climate and Shoreline Change along the Gulf of California

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作者
Franco-Ochoa, Cuauhtemoc [1 ]
Zambrano-Medina, Yedid [2 ]
Plata-Rocha, Wenseslao [2 ]
Monjardin-Armenta, Sergio [2 ]
Rodriguez-Cueto, Yandy [3 ]
Escudero, Mireille [3 ]
Mendoza, Edgar [3 ]
机构
[1] Autonomous Univ Sinaloa, Dept Civil Engn, Culiacan Rosales 80040, Mexico
[2] Autonomous Univ Sinaloa, Dept Earth & Space Sci, Culiacan Rosales 80040, Mexico
[3] Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Engn Inst, Mexico City 04510, DF, Mexico
来源
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL | 2020年 / 10卷 / 23期
关键词
shoreline change; wave climate; climate change; Gulf of California; SEA-LEVEL RISE; DIFFERENCE WATER INDEX; BEACH; VARIABILITY; IMPACTS; EROSION; TRENDS; COAST; HEIGHTS; WINDS;
D O I
10.3390/app10238719
中图分类号
O6 [化学];
学科分类号
0703 ;
摘要
The last ten years have shown that Climate Change (CC) is a major global issue to attend to. The integration of its effects into coastal impact assessments and adaptation plans has gained great attention and interest, focused on avoiding or minimizing human lives and asset losses. Future scenarios of mean sea level rises and wave energy increase rates have then been computed, but downscaling still remains necessary to assess the possible local effects in small areas. In this context, the effects of CC on the wave climate in the Gulf of California (GC), Mexico, have received little attention, and no previous studies have tackled the long-term trend of wave climate at a regional scale. In this paper, the long-term trends of the wave height, wave period and wave energy in the GC were thus investigated, using the fifth-generation climate reanalysis dataset (ERA5). The long-term shoreline evolution was also examined from historical Landsat images, so as to identify erosional hotspots where intervention can be prioritized. The results indicate that both the mean and extreme wave regimes in the GC are getting more energetic and that two-thirds of the coast is suffering chronic erosion. A discrepancy between the trends of the wave period and wave height in some regions of the Gulf was also found. Finally, the importance of natural processes, human activity and CC in the shoreline change is highlighted, while addressing the need for future permanent field observations and studies in the GC.
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