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Apr 26, 2012
Wave Climate Change and Coastal Erosion in the US Pacific Northwest
Publication: Ocean Wave Measurement and Analysis (2001)
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Wave-buoy data collected off the coast of the US Pacific Northwest (Washington and Oregon) document that significant wave heights and periods have progressively increased during recent decades. The average deep-water significant wave heights during the "winter" (October through March) have increased at a rate 0.032 m/yr from 1978 through 2001, a 0.77-m change, while the increase in wave heights associated with the strongest storms has been even greater. Calculated swash runup levels on beaches, which depend on both deep-water wave heights and periods, show parallel increases; the rate of increase has been 0.010 m/yr, which would have produced more than a 6-m landward shift in the mean shoreline during the winter since the late 1970's. Such decadal trends, together with extreme-value analyses of deep-water wave parameters and swash runup levels, are being used to assess the potential for future beach and property erosion along the Pacific Northwest coast.
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© 2002 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Research Scientist, Oregon Dept. of Geology and Mineral Industries, Coastal Field Office, 313 2nd St., Suite D, Newport, OR 97365. E-mail: [email protected]
Professor Emeritus, College of Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR 97331. E-mail: [email protected]
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