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COASTAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
Volume 58, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1142/S0578563416400040
Keywords
Typhoon Haiyan; boulder transport; Boussinesq equations; surf zone; infragravity waves
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Funding
- NSF [1426445, 1025519, 1435007]
- ONR [N00014-11-1-0045, N00014-13-1-0123]
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Kakenhi grant
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [16H02381, 15H05220] Funding Source: KAKEN
- Directorate For Engineering
- Div Of Civil, Mechanical, & Manufact Inn [1435007] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Directorate For Engineering
- Div Of Civil, Mechanical, & Manufact Inn [1426445] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Directorate For Geosciences
- Division Of Ocean Sciences [1025519] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Boulders numbering in the high hundreds/low thousands, and with masses up to similar to 30 tonnes, were transported onshore by Super Typhoon Haiyan in Calicoan Island, Philippines to maximum ground elevations that could exceed 9m and terminal positions up to similar to 180m inland. One-dimensional Boussinesq hindcasts of coastal boulder motion showed intermittent transport initiated at the fronts of infragravity swash bores. Transport distances were found to be highly sensitive to wave-height, enough so that observations of terminal positions may be a viable method of estimating rough paleostorm magnitudes. The large accelerations at bore fronts generated significant inertial forces, particularly for larger boulders, but drag forces had greater root-mean-square magnitudes in all simulations. Widely used relations to infer fluid velocities from boulder properties were tested using modeled boulders - inferred velocities at modeled terminal boulder positions were compared to maximum computed Boussinesq fluid velocities at these locations and found to be significantly lower. This underprediction of inferred velocities was greatest for smaller boulders that were strongly mobile. Inferred drag loads compared to modeled values were somewhat more accurate for large boulders when a Froude number of unity was assumed to estimate flow depths. Although these boulders were unequivocally transported by storm waves, their large sizes and distances traveled venture into what has been considered the tsunami range. Thus, care must be taken to interpret the provenance of coastal boulder fields with unknown origin for lower to mid-latitude regions.
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