Sentence examples for dynamic beach from inspiring English sources

The terrain of a barrier island is determined by a dynamic beach system with offshore bars, pounding surf, and shifting beaches; as well as grassy dunes behind the beach, maritime forests with wetlands in the interiors, and salt or tidal marshes on the lee side, facing the mainland.

Many Americans who have spent time exploring the dynamic beaches of Europe feel embarrassed of their own country's immaturity and prudishness regarding public nudity.

This angle represents the difference in degrees between the direction of the mean wave energy flux at the diffraction point (θEF) and the orientation of the dynamic equilibrium beach (θDB), to be utilized in a newly derived DEP formula to predict the shoreline shape in the long term.

In this work, the decadal behaviour of 58 sandy beaches along the 150 km long South-Atlantic coast of Spain, between the Guadalquivir river mouth and the Strait of Gibraltar, is analysed in order to investigate the relationships between shoreline change patterns and the diverse morphological and dynamic factors controlling beach evolution in the area.

Such an increase in variability is likely to develop on a beach in dynamic equilibrium, where landscape references are stable, and a variable behaviour represents a strategy for dealing with environmental fluctuations.

Beaches are dynamic ecosystems that require space to respond to natural or anthropogenic drivers and pressures.

This paper presents a design procedure for embayed beaches in dynamic equilibrium which have a specific net littoral drift rate.

Consequently, T. saltator showed a more flexible behaviour that may be considered an important evolutionary adaptation to dynamic and mesotidal sandy beaches.

The most famous image, however, was that of the 97-pound weakling who, after having sand kicked in his face at the beach, employs Dynamic-Tension to build a herculean physique and to challenge the beach bully.

Although relatively common features in nature, only a handful of laboratory studies have examined the dynamic response of gravel beaches and barriers to combined tidal and wave forcing and to storm simulations.

Moreover, these beaches represent dynamic environments often subject to harsh conditions and climate fluctuations.