Predicting change to shorelines globally presents an increasing challenge as sea level rise (SLR) accelerates. Many shoreline prediction models use the simplistic ‘Bruun rule’ for dealing with SLR profile translation, in-part due alternative approaches being too complex and time-consuming implement. To address this, we introduce ShoreTrans: a simple, rules-based, user-input driven, shoreface tr...

On October 6, 2002, M/V GOTIA, carrying 163 metric tons of fuel oil in her fuel tanks, rammed into the Emirgan Pier in the Bosporus. One of the fuel tanks started leaking oil in to the Bosporus. The ship continued its passage and finally anchored when it reached the Marmara Sea where the leaking tank was repaired. Following the accident, the strong surface current, rapidly transported the oil s...

We present a hybrid radial basis function (RBF) sigmoid neural network with a three-step training algorithm that utilizes both global search and gradient descent training. The algorithm used is intended to identify global features of an input-output relationship before adding local detail to the approximating function. It aims to achieve efficient function approximation through the separate ide...

The coastline of Vietnam is vulnerable to a number threats including shoreline erosion, flooding, sea level rise, typhoons and storms. Natural anthropogenic factors have been highlighted as key drivers the physical setting coastline, elevation in relation mean influence degree vulnerability. In this review paper, we investigated possibilities, advantages limitations using bioshields for coastal...

In Japan, Typhoon No. 15 (Faxai) hit the Kanto region on September 5, 2019, causing massive flooding damage due to collapse of seawalls (Suzuki et al., 2020). Fukuura district Yokohama City, parapet seawall collapsed and large overtopping waves inundated an area 0.75 km inland from seawall, resulting in a flooded 0.8 km2. Since typhoon season lasts until November, there was possibility that typ...

Coastal urbanisation is a widespread phenomenon throughout the world and often linked to increased erosion. Small Pacific islands are not spared from this issue, which of great importance in context climate change. The French Polynesian island Bora was used as case study investigate historical evolution its coastline classification position 1955 2019. A time series very high-resolution aerial i...

In recent years tsunamis have been recognized as one of the most catastrophic natural disasters in world, highlighted by 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and 2011 Tohoku earthquake tsunami. These countries affected like Indonesia, Thailand Japan usually arm their coast with sea walls to provide protection for coastal urban regions; however, surveys found during both events, several sections breached h...