Impact of the winter 2013–2014 series of severe Western Europe storms on a double-barred sandy coast: Beach and dune erosion and megacusp embayments

B Castelle, V Marieu, S Bujan, KD Splinter, A Robinet… - Geomorphology, 2015 - Elsevier
The winter of 2013/2014 was characterized by a striking pattern of temporal and spatial
extreme storm wave clustering in Western Europe. The 110-km long Gironde coast, SW …

Extreme wave activity during 2013/2014 winter and morphological impacts along the Atlantic coast of Europe

G Masselink, B Castelle, T Scott… - Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Studies of coastal vulnerability due to climate change tend to focus on the consequences of
sea level rise, rather than the complex coastal responses resulting from changes to the …

Extreme coastal erosion enhanced by anomalous extratropical storm wave direction

MD Harley, IL Turner, MA Kinsela, JH Middleton… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Extratropical cyclones (ETCs) are the primary driver of large-scale episodic beach erosion
along coastlines in temperate regions. However, key drivers of the magnitude and regional …

The extreme 2013/2014 winter storms: hydrodynamic forcing and coastal response along the southwest coast of England

G Masselink, T Scott, T Poate, P Russell… - Earth Surface …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The southwest coast of England was subjected to an unusually energetic sequence of
Atlantic storms during the 2013/2014 winter, with the 8‐week period from mid‐December to …

[HTML][HTML] The extreme 2013/2014 winter storms: Beach recovery along the southwest coast of England

T Scott, G Masselink, T O'Hare, A Saulter, T Poate… - Marine Geology, 2016 - Elsevier
Sand and gravel beaches naturally act as a coastal buffer, absorbing wave energy and
dynamically adapting to the seasonal and long-term wave climate. Significant shifts in …

A synthetic review of remote sensing applications to detect nearshore bars

MA Román-Rivera, JT Ellis - Marine Geology, 2019 - Elsevier
Nearshore bars are important morphologic features associated with intermediate and
dissipative natural beaches. Bars impact the direction, magnitude, and patterns of sediment …

Response of the Bight of Benin (Gulf of Guinea, West Africa) coastline to anthropogenic and natural forcing, Part1: Wave climate variability and impacts on the …

R Almar, E Kestenare, J Reyns, J Jouanno… - Continental Shelf …, 2015 - Elsevier
The short, medium and long-term evolution of the sandy coastline of the Bight of Benin in the
Gulf of Guinea, West Africa, has become a major regional focal point due to the rapid socio …

A new climate index controlling winter wave activity along the Atlantic coast of Europe: The West Europe Pressure Anomaly

B Castelle, G Dodet, G Masselink… - Geophysical Research …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
A pioneering and replicable method based on a 66‐year numerical weather and wave
hindcast is developed to optimize a climate index based on the sea level pressure (SLP) that …

Morphodynamics of wave-dominated beaches

B Castelle, G Masselink - Cambridge Prisms: Coastal Futures, 2023 - cambridge.org
Wave-dominated sandy beaches are highly valued by societies and are amongst the world's
most energetic and dynamic environments. On wave-dominated beaches with unlimited …

Shoreline recovery on wave-dominated sandy coastlines: the role of sandbar morphodynamics and nearshore wave parameters

MS Phillips, MD Harley, IL Turner, KD Splinter, RJ Cox - Marine Geology, 2017 - Elsevier
This study quantifies and characterises the temporal variability of shoreline recovery on a
high-energy sandy coastline using a 10-year dataset of daily shoreline and sandbar …