Hurricane Alicia storm surges and shore processes

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dc.contributor.authorSavage RPen_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-02-15T17:16:23Z
dc.date.available2010-02-15T17:16:23Z
dc.date.issued1985en_US
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dc.description257-270en_US
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dc.description.abstractHurricane Alicia moved inland over the Texas coast during the night of August 17, 1983 creating waves and surges in the Gulf of Mexico and adjacent bays. Waves eroded beaches and dunes and surges overtopped low-lying areas of barrier islands and inland areas adjacent to the bays behind the barriers. A three-day survey of field evidence of water levels and flow directions was carried out one week after the storm. The evidence gathered shows that the barrier islands were overtopped from front-to-back in some areas and from back-to-front in other areas with quite different results. There was little or no beach erosion to the left of the storm as it came ashore; however, serious beach erosion occurred for 18 miles to the right of the storm and there was significant erosion for 55 miles to the right of the storm. Maximum water levels in the Gulf, including the effects of normal tides and storm effects, were 9 to 11 feet and maximum water levels along the northern portion of Galveston Bay were 11 to 14 feeten_US
dc.description.urihttp://gbic.tamug.edu/request.htmen_US
dc.historyen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1969.3/23344
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dc.notesCompilation and indexing terms, Copyright 2004 Elsevier Engineering Information, Incen_US
dc.placeHouston, TX, USAen_US
dc.publisherASCE, New York, NY, USAen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries50949.00en_US
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dc.scaleen_US
dc.seriesProceedings of the Coastal Engineering Conferenceen_US
dc.subjectBEACHES - Erosionen_US
dc.subjectCoastal engineeringen_US
dc.subjectErosionen_US
dc.subjectHURRICANESen_US
dc.subjectOCEANOGRAPHY - Sea Level Changesen_US
dc.subjectTexasen_US
dc.subjectTidesen_US
dc.subjectWateren_US
dc.subjectWater levelsen_US
dc.titleHurricane Alicia storm surges and shore processesen_US
dc.typeCONFen_US
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dc.vol-issue1()en_US

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