Os modelos numéricos, devidamente validados com dados, constituem uma ferramenta atractiva para o apoio à gestão da qualidade da água e do bom estado ecológico em estuários e zonas costeiras. Com este propósito desenvolveu-se ...

This work investigates historical variation and trends in storm climate for the South Portugal region, using data from wave buoy measurements and from modelling, for the period 1952 to 2009. Several storm parameters (annual ...

The morphology of tidal inlets is very dynamic, due to the combined action of waves, tides and river flows. The morphological changes of small and shallow inlets are particularly relevant, as even slight variations in the ...

This study aims to hindcast and analyze the storm surge associated with Xynthia, a mid-latitude depression that severely hit the French central part of the Bay of Biscay on the 27–28th of February 2010. The main losses in ...

The economical and ecological importance of tidal inlets has fostered the development of empirical tools for inlet management during the last century. This study aims at confronting these empirical theories with results obtained ...

Owing to the decline of traditional salt production, a large number of saltpans in the Ria de Aveiro, Portugal, are currently abandoned and deteriorating. A study was undertaken to characterize the hydrodynamic and ...

This article addresses the problem of sedimentation at the entrance of a harbour by evaluating and understanding the sediment dynamics in the adjacent beaches. The results of the methodology applied to acknowledge the ...

Presently, conceptual and numerical sediment concentration modelling is largely based on the diffusion approach. However, several works have shown that this approach is, frequently, unsuitable to model the profile distribution ...

This study reports the medium-term evolution of a sandy backbarrier and its relation with prevailing wind conditions. Obtained results demonstrated that Ancão backbarrier does not behave as a scale-down version of higher ...