Contemporaneity of floods and storms. A case study of Metropolitan Area of Reggio Calabria in Southern Italy

G Barbaro, O Petrucci, C Canale, G Foti… - … : Local Knowledge and …, 2019 - Springer
The environmental balance is being increasingly altered by mankind's direct and indirect
actions. Waterproofing of territory and continuous climate change are amongst the main …

Perspectives on wave transformation over a near-horizontal shore platform: Comparison of a two-dimensional and transect approach

RL Krier-Mariani, WJ Stephenson, SJ Wakes… - Geomorphology, 2022 - Elsevier
Understanding wave transformations over intertidal shore platforms is necessary for
managing rock coasts. Previous studies have investigated the effects of intertidal shore …

Bruzzano river mouth damage due to meteorological events

C Canale, G Barbaro, G Foti, O Petrucci… - … Journal of River …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The Italian territory, due to its geomorphological and climatic characteristics, is particularly
prone to hydrogeological instability phenomena such as flash floods, river floods, sea storms …

A formula for the calculation of the longshore sediment transport including spectral effects

G Barbaro, G Foti, L Sicilia… - Journal of Coastal …, 2014 - meridian.allenpress.com
ABSTRACT Barbaro, G.; Foti, G.; Sicilia, L., and Malara, G., 2014. A formula for the
calculation of the longshore sediment transport including spectral effects. The objective of …

Installing U-OWC devices along Italian coasts

F Arena, V Fiamma, V Laface… - International …, 2013 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
In the last decades, the research has directed its efforts and resources paper is to investigate
towards the possibility to incorporate wave energy converters, into the traditional maritime …

[PDF][PDF] Analysis of the shoreline changes of Reggio Calabria (Italy)

G Barbaro, V Fiamma, V Barrile, G Foti… - International Journal of …, 2017 - academia.edu
The paper describes and analyses the evolution of the shoreline in front of Reggio
Calabria's promenade through a time period of the last thirty years. To identify the shoreline …

Field experiment on a scaled prototype of a floating multi-purpose offshore platform: Dynamic response determination with uncertainty quantification

C Ruzzo, G Malara, M Collu, A Santoro, V Fiamma… - Applied Ocean …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents the results of a field experimental campaign on a 1: 15 scaled prototype
of an innovative floating multi-purpose platform, developed within “The Blue Growth …

Set-up due to random waves: influence of the directional spectrum

G Barbaro, G Foti, G Malara - International …, 2011 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
This paper deals with the estimation of set-up due to irregular waves. Following the logic of
Barbaro and Martino [1], it is derived the analytical expression of the set-up. The solution is …

Protection and management of the Annunziata river mouth area (Italy)

CL Sicilia, G Foti, A Campolo - Air, Soil and Water Research, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
A better understanding and prediction of the dynamic processes that govern the coastal
zone is the topic of the current paper; in particular, a deep investigation of the coastal …

Extrapolation of random wave field data via compressive sampling

G Malara, IA Kougioumtzoglou, F Arena - Ocean Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
Estimating the space-time characteristics of a sea state is of crucial importance to a number
of engineering applications, such as the ones involving three-dimensional waves interacting …