Ten years of morphodynamic data at a micro-tidal urban beach: Cala Millor (Western Mediterranean Sea).

ABSTRACT: Systematic and sustained high quality measurements of nearshore waves and beach morphology are crucial to understand morphodynamic processes that determine beach evolution, to unravel the effects of global warming on sandy coasts and thus improve forecasting models. In 2011 a comprehensive beach monitoring program, the first in the Mediterranean Sea, started at Cala Millor Beach on the island of Mallorca (Spain). The aim was to provide long-term datasets of near-shore morphodynamics in a carbonate sandy micro-tidal and semi-embayed beach fronted by a Posidonia oceanica seagrass meadow. We present our morphological and hydrodynamical dataset of Cala Millor covering more than a decade. The dataset includes topobathymetries, shoreline positions obtained from video cameras, meteorological para

SUBMITTER: Fernandez-Mora A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10199013 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature