Stabilization at Santinho-Ingleses dunefield, Southern Brazil: What will be the future of sediment i

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International Journal of Advanced Engineering Research and Science (IJAERS) Peer-Reviewed Journal ISSN: 2349-6495(P) | 2456-1908(O) Vol-8, Issue-8; Aug, 2021 Journal Home Page Available: https://ijaers.com/ Article DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijaers.88.21

Stabilization at Santinho-Ingleses dunefield, Southern Brazil: What will be the future of sediment input to Ingleses Beach? Maiara Werner Pinto¹, Antonio Henrique da Fontoura Klein¹, Adrián Acevedo², Melisa Menendez² 1Laboratory

of Coastal Oceanography, Federal University of Santa Catarina. Florianópolis-SC, Brazil

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Hydraulics Institute of the Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain

Received: 01 Jul 2021; Received in revised form: 03 Aug 2021; Accepted: 11 Aug 2021; Available online: 17 Aug 2021 ©2021 The Author(s). Published by AI Publication. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Keywords— Transgressive dune Overpassing, Sediment budget.

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Abstract— This paper describes the overpassing process using a case study from southern Brazil, that present a decadal pulse of sediment entering in the system. A transgressive dune field extends across a headland from Santinho beach to Ingleses beach. Analysis of precipitation data (1961-2014), wind direction and speed (1964-2014), aeolian drift potential (DP), aerial photographs/satellite images (between 1938 and 2016) and morphological data (2002, 2010 and 2014) make it possible to analyze the decadal-scale dune field evolution. The wind historical data showed southern wind as the stronger, moving the dune crests to north. The rainfall analysis presents an increasing trend leading to a decrease in drift potential and favors dune stabilization by vegetation growth. There is a decadal pulse of sediment inputs to the system, as well. The northern sector of Santinho beach has a positive budget and provides about 6,000m³/year of sediment to the foredune. Then, with southern winds, the sediment migrates into the dune field (about 3,000-5,000m³/year) reaches Ingleses by overpassing, ensuring a positive sediment budget for the system that occurs at east side of the Ingleses beach.

INTRODUCTION

Coastal dunes develop landward of areas with an ample unconsolidated sediment supply and the grain size is suitable for onshore aeolian transport [13, 15, 18, 31, 54]. Distributed worldwide in association with sandy beaches, they have a wide range of shapes and dimensions related to spatial and temporal variations in sediment input and wind regime [9, 15, 18, 44]. Several coastal dune systems have become increasingly vegetated in recent decades, for example in Africa [28], United Kingdom [43], Europe [12], China [56], Australia [7] and in Brazil [35] is not different.

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Santa Catarina Island is located in southern Brazil. It contains numerous headlands, bays, and beaches with transgressive dune fields. Sediment overpassing by dunes is observed on this coast too [6,25, 26, 27, 41; 42]. The headland sediment bypassing (HSB) and overpassing (HSO) is a process in which sediment is transported by wind or waves from the updrift side of a headland to the downdrift side [26, 27]. Both, HSB and HSO are important components of regional sediment budget of some coasts [27, 34, 42]. [53] has shown a significant influence of overpassing on shoreline position, when the shoreline of the northern coast of Santinho accretes between 1 and > 5m/years-¹

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