Total water level driving processes influence the potential for coastal change along United States coastlines.

ABSTRACT: Effectively managing coastal impacts requires understanding how hydrodynamic processes interact with beach morphology and alter sandy beaches. Sallenger's Storm Impact Regime classification provides proxies for identifying these interactions by classifying potential coastal changes into impact regimes based on the elevation of total water levels (TWLs), the combination of waves, tides and nontidal residuals, compared to the elevation of beach morphology features. Here, we evaluate spatiotemporal variations in TWL drivers during storm impact regimes across sandy beaches along the continental U.S. coastlines. TWL magnitude and composition vary across impact regimes and regions. Although impacts are identified using consistent definitions, the processes contributing to regimes are location-sp

SUBMITTER: Quadrado GP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12780816 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature