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Predicting compartment-scale climate change impacts related to southern ocean wave forcing: Port Fairy, Victoria, Australia

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posted on 2020-01-01, 00:00 authored by C Leach, D M Kennedy, Rafael Cabral Carvalho, Daniel IerodiaconouDaniel Ierodiaconou
On the southern coast of Australia one of the principle impacts of climate change will be a change in wave magnitude and direction resulting from intensification of the Southern Ocean storm systems. In Victoria, Australia, this is likely to cause significant change in sediment dynamics and possible shoreline re-orientation. In this paper, Port Fairy (western coast of Victoria) is used as a case study to explore the sensitivity of this embayment to changing wave climate conditions. Bed level change rates and spatially variable sediment transport rates are investigated. The results indicate that a southerly shift in the wave climate could intensify sediment transport processes and erosional patterns in this area.

History

Journal

Journal of coastal research

Volume

95

Issue

sp1

Pagination

1157 - 1161

Publisher

Coastal Education & Research Foundation

Location

Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

ISSN

0749-0208

eISSN

1551-5036

Language

eng

Publication classification

C Journal article; C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

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2020, Coastal Education and Research Foundation, Inc.