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Two events of crescentic bar formation in La Barceloneta beach are analyzed (Mediterranean coast of Spain). They occurred on October 2003 and on December 2005, during Eastern storms with offshore root-mean-square heights between 1.5 m and 2 m, peak periods of about 9 s and angles of incidence relative to shore-normal between 15° and 30°. The final alongshore spacings are about 300 m in the first event and about 100–200 m in the second. A nonlinear morphodynamic model is then applied to La Barceloneta conditions to reproduce these two events. The model is able to simulate the final shape of the crescentic bars, reproducing the observed spacings.

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Coastal Sediments '07
Pages: 2111 - 2123

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Published online: Apr 26, 2012

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Institut de Ciències del Mar, CSIC, Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta 37-49, 08003 Barcelona, Spain. E-mail: [email protected]
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Applied Physics Dept., Jordi Girona 1-3, 08034 Barcelona, Spain. E-mail: [email protected]
Institut de Ciències del Mar, CSIC, Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta 37-49, 08003 Barcelona, Spain. E-mail: [email protected]
A. Falqués [email protected]
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Applied Physics Dept., Jordi Girona 1-3, 08034 Barcelona, Spain. E-mail: [email protected]
J. Guillén [email protected]
Institut de Ciències del Mar, CSIC, Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta 37-49, 08003 Barcelona, Spain. E-mail: [email protected]
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Applied Physics Dept., Jordi Girona 1-3, 08034 Barcelona, Spain. E-mail: [email protected]

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