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A geomorphological response of beaches to Typhoon Meari in the eastern Shandong Peninsula in China

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Eight representative beach profiles on the eastern coast of the Shandong Peninsula are observed and measured in 2011 and 2012 to determine the coastal processes under the lower tropical wind speed condition and the beach response to and recovery from the tropical storm Meari in a rare typhoon region. The results show that it is the enhancement and directional change of cross-shore and longshore sediment transports caused by Meari that leads to the beach morphological changes, and most of the sediment transports occur during the pre-Meari landing phase. The erosional scarp formation and the berm or beach face erosion are the main geomorphological responses of the beaches to the storm. The storm characteristics are more important than the beach shapes in the storm response process of the beaches on Shandong Peninsula. The typhoon is a fortuitous strong dynamic event, and the effect on the dissipative beach is more obvious than it is on the reflective beach in the study region. Furthermore, the beach trend is the main factor that controlls the storm effect intensity, and it is also closely related to the recovery of the beach profiles.

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  1. College of Marine Geosciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266100, China

    Dong Ding, Jichao Yang, Guangxue Li, Olusegun A. Dada, Lixin Gong, Nan Wang, Xiangdong Wang & Bin Zhang

  2. National Deep Sea Center, State Oceanic Administration, Qingdao, 266061, China

    Jichao Yang

  3. Department of Marine Science and Technology, Federal University of Technology, Akure, 340252, Nigeria

    Olusegun A. Dada

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Foundation item: The National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract No. 41030856; the Marine Specific Welfare Project of China under contract No. 200905008-4; the Project of Taishan Scholar.

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Ding, D., Yang, J., Li, G. et al. A geomorphological response of beaches to Typhoon Meari in the eastern Shandong Peninsula in China. Acta Oceanol. Sin. 34, 126–135 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13131-015-0644-5

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