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Beach processes

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Morphological Changes Associated With Tropical Storm Debby In The Vicinity Of Two Tidal Inlets, John's Pass And Blind Pass, West-Central Florida, Andrew Brownell Jan 2013

Morphological Changes Associated With Tropical Storm Debby In The Vicinity Of Two Tidal Inlets, John's Pass And Blind Pass, West-Central Florida, Andrew Brownell

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Tropical Storm Debby affected the Gulf coast of Florida in late June, 2012. The storm's southerly approach temporarily reversed the annual net southward longshore sediment transport. The energetic conditions associated with Tropical Storm Debby can be seen in the wind, wave and tidal measurements taken from both onshore and offshore weather stations around the dual tidal inlets system of John's Pass and Blind Pass, approximately 25 kilometers north of the mouth of Tampa Bay. The energetic and persistent southerly forcing, in addition to higher storm induced water levels and wave heights, resulted in atypical beach erosion and sediment deposition on …