A user-friendly system designed to understand local littoral processes and design/evaluate coastal interventions, named the Coastal Modeling System (SMC epsilon) is presented. The system, which comprises a set of numerical models, state-of-the-art methodologies and numerical databases, is prepared to provide a method for coastal practitioners, researchers and decision-makers to address coastal issues, such as erosion and flooding or to evaluate coastal defense structures. The system incorporates a method to transfer numerically generated, calibrated and validated wave series to the surf zone; to estimate the sediment littoral drift by means of up-to-date formulations; and to estimate the flooding level and impacts such as those produced by climate change. In this paper, these skills are detailed. The system, which is adaptable to any coastal region, was implemented for the Brazilian coast (SMC-Brasil). The implementation includes databases and methodological adaptations to local characteristics, a dissemination plan and the development of several study cases.
1.Univ Cantabria, Environm Hydraul Inst, Avda I Torres 15 Parque Cient & Tecnol Cantabria, Santander 39011, Spain 2.Univ Fed Santa Catarina, Ctr Ciencias Fis & Matemat CFM, Coordenadoria Especial Oceanog OCN, Campus Univ Trinidade, BR-88040900 Florianopolis, SC, Brazil 3.Univ Sao Paulo, Inst Oceanog, P Oceanog 191, BR-05508900 Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil 4.Univ Politecn Cataluna, Dept Fis Aplicada, Modul B5,001,Jordi Girona 1-3, E-08034 Barcelona, Spain 5.Univ Plymouth, Plymouth PL4 8AA, Devon, England
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Quetzalcoatl, O.,Gonzalez, M.,Canovas, V,et al. SMC epsilon, a coastal modeling system for assessing beach processes and coastal interventions: Application to the Brazilian coast[J]. ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING & SOFTWARE,2019-01-01,116:131-152