Journal of Tropical Oceanography ›› 2022, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (4): 51-60.doi: 10.11978/2021096CSTR: 32234.14.2021096

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Changes of the artificial beach profile in the Qinzhou Bay

FENG Bingbin1,2(), WANG Riming3,4, LI Shushi3, HUANG Hu3(), HU Baoqing1   

  1. 1. Key Laboratory of Beibu Gulf Environmental Change and Resource Use, Ministry of Education (Nanning Normal University), Nanning 530000, China
    2. School of Geography and Planning (Nanning Normal University), Nanning 530000, China
    3. Guangxi Key Laboratory of Marine Disaster Research in Beibu Gulf (Beibu Gulf University), Qinzhou 535011, China
    4. Qinzhou Key Laboratory of Environmental and Ecological Restoration (Beibu Gulf University), Qinzhou 535011, China
  • Received:2021-07-28 Revised:2021-10-28 Online:2022-07-10 Published:2021-10-25
  • Contact: HUANG Hu E-mail:FengBingbin@163.com;mrhuanghu@126.com
  • Supported by:
    Natural Science Foundation of Guangxi Province(2018JJD150005);National Natural Science Foundation of China(41930537);National Natural Science Foundation of China(41666003);Guangxi Key Research and Development Program(AB21076016)

Abstract:

The dynamic process of beach profile changes under the actions of waves and tides is the key to understanding coastal evolution, coastal defence design and tourism resource planning. Taking an artificial beach in the Shajing Peninsula of the Qinzhou Bay in Guangxi province as the study area, the study aims to explore the dynamic process of beach profile changes by analyzing the erosion and single-width volume of beach profile, as well as using EOF (Empirical Orthogonal Function) to reveal its model, based on the monthly surveyed profile elevation data from January 2018 to December 2019 using by GPS-RTK, The main results were shown as followed: (1) during the observation period, the artificial beach profile showed a regular variation characterized by accretion in winter and spring and erosion in summer and autumn; (2) due to the transverse sediment transport over the artificial beach, the single-width volumes of beach profile displayed opposite variation trends in adjacent transversal zones, which was manifested by a alternation between erosion and accretion; (3) the variation modes of artificial beach profiles could be divided into three parts that include the main model that beach profile elevations decreased significantly due to heavy rainfall and typhoon, the secondary model that the beach profile recovered gradually after heavy rainfall and typhoon under the influences of tides and normal waves, and the third model that beach profile changes resulted from wave breaking-induced currents under the action of normal waves.

Key words: beach profile changes, wave and tide actions, Empirical Orthogonal Function, transversal zones, artificial beach

CLC Number: 

  • P737.13