Abstract
ABSTRACT Medellin, G.; Marino-Tapia, I., and Euan-Avila, J., 2015. The influence of a seawall on postnourishment evolution in a sea-breeze-dominated microtidal beach. The postnourishment beach evolution is evaluated on a sea-breeze-dominated microtidal beach in Yucatan (Mexico). The study area has experienced severe beach erosion due to both alongshore sediment-transport gradients during calm conditions and offshore sediment transport during extreme wave events. Therefore, a shoreline restoration program, including beach nourishment and the removal of groynes, was carried out in 2002. Bimonthly subaerial/intertidal beach profiles measured during 7 years (2002–09), in front of a seawall and at an adjacent beach (nonwalled), are employed to analyze the beach nourishment evolution. Empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis of the shoreline time series is performed using the data extracted from the 50 field surveys. The temporal evolution of the EOF analysis shows the following: (1) an abrupt increase in b...
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