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    Intense storms increase the stability of tidal bays

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    Date
    2018-06-05
    Author
    Castagno, Katherine  Concept link
    Jiménez-Robles, Alfonso M.  Concept link
    Donnelly, Jeffrey P.  Concept link
    Wiberg, Patricia L.  Concept link
    Fenster, Michael S.  Concept link
    Fagherazzi, Sergio  Concept link
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    Citable URI
    https://hdl.handle.net/1912/10469
    As published
    https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL078208
    DOI
    10.1029/2018GL078208
    Abstract
    Coastal bays and, specifically, back‐barrier tidal basins host productive ecosystems, coastal communities, and critical infrastructure. As sea level continues to rise and tropical cyclones increase in intensity, these coastal systems are increasingly at risk. Developing a sediment budget is imperative to understanding how storm events affect the system's resilience, where net import of sediment indicates growth and resilience against sea level rise, and net export of sediment indicates deterioration. Using high‐resolution numerical simulations, we show that intense storms import sediment into a system of bays in Virginia, USA. Duration and magnitude of storm surge are among the most important factors in sediment import, suggesting that intense storms increase the stability of tidal bays by providing the sediment necessary to counteract sea level rise. Since climate models project that tropical cyclones will increase in intensity in coming decades, our results have significant implications for the resilience of tidal bays and the future of coastal communities worldwide.
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    Author Posting. © American Geophysical Union, 2018. This article is posted here by permission of [publisher] for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Geophysical Research Letters 45 (2018): 5491-5500, doi:10.1029/2018GL078208.
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    Geophysical Research Letters 45 (2018): 5491-5500
     
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