Print Email Facebook Twitter Modelling dune erosion, overwash and breaching at Fire Island (NY) during hurricane Sandy Title Modelling dune erosion, overwash and breaching at Fire Island (NY) during hurricane Sandy Author De Vet, P.L.M. McCall, R.T. Den Bieman, J.P. Stive, M.J.F. Van Ormondt, M. Date 2015-05-11 Abstract In 2012, Hurricane Sandy caused a breach at Fire Island (NY, USA), near Pelican Island. This paper aims at modelling dune erosion, overwash and breaching processes that occured during the hurricane event at this stretch of coast with the numerical model XBeach. By using the default settings, the erosion rates are substantially overestimated, which was also concluded in several previous case studies. If the discretization of bed roughness along with wave skewness and asymmetry are improved in the model, XBeach is capable of simulating the various morphological changes within the chosen model domain. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:a72514b7-d6fc-4586-863b-d67291f6a21e Publisher World Scientific Publishing Company Embargo date 2016-05-11 ISBN 978-981-4689-96-0 Source https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814689977_0006 Source The Proceedings of the Coastal Sediments 2015, San Diego, USA, 11 – 15 May 2015 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2015 The Author(s) Files PDF 323668.pdf 1.62 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:a72514b7-d6fc-4586-863b-d67291f6a21e/datastream/OBJ/view