Scaling laws for coastal overwash morphology
Scaling laws for coastal overwash morphology
Overwash is a physical process of coastal sediment transport driven by storm events and is essential to landscape resilience in low-lying barrier environments. This work establishes a comprehensive set of scaling laws for overwash morphology: unifying quantitative descriptions with which to compare overwash features by their morphological attributes across case examples. Such scaling laws also help relate overwash features to other morphodynamic phenomena. Here morphometric data from a physical experiment are compared with data from natural examples of overwash features. The resulting scaling relationships indicate scale invariance spanning several orders of magnitude. Furthermore, these new relationships for overwash morphology align with classic scaling laws for fluvial drainages and alluvial fans.
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Lazarus, Eli
642a3cdb-0d25-48b1-8ab8-8d1d72daca6e
15 December 2016
Lazarus, Eli
642a3cdb-0d25-48b1-8ab8-8d1d72daca6e
Lazarus, Eli
(2016)
Scaling laws for coastal overwash morphology.
Geophysical Research Letters, 43 (23), .
(doi:10.1002/2016GL071213).
Abstract
Overwash is a physical process of coastal sediment transport driven by storm events and is essential to landscape resilience in low-lying barrier environments. This work establishes a comprehensive set of scaling laws for overwash morphology: unifying quantitative descriptions with which to compare overwash features by their morphological attributes across case examples. Such scaling laws also help relate overwash features to other morphodynamic phenomena. Here morphometric data from a physical experiment are compared with data from natural examples of overwash features. The resulting scaling relationships indicate scale invariance spanning several orders of magnitude. Furthermore, these new relationships for overwash morphology align with classic scaling laws for fluvial drainages and alluvial fans.
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Accepted/In Press date: 23 November 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 24 November 2016
Published date: 15 December 2016
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/405338
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