edited by Jane McKee Smith (Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, USA)

Table of Contents (1,264k)
Foreword (56k)
Coasts - The Riskiest Places on Earth (2,441k)
Wave Setup at Different River Entrance Morphologies (1,075k)
Long-Term Beach Response to Groin Shortening, Westhampton Beach, Long Island, New York (1,416k)
Safety Analysis Model And Procedure for a Coast Protection Master Plan of North Sea Coast of Schleswig-Holstein (1,280k)
Loads on Floating Breakwaters: Effect of Layout Under Irregular Waves (1,280k)

This proceedings contains papers presented at the 31st International Conference on Coastal Engineering, which has held in Hamburg, Germany (31 August – 5 September 2008). The proceeding is divided into five parts: Waves; Long Waves, Nearshore Currents, and Swash; Sediment Transport and Morphology; Coastal Management, Environment, and Risk; and Coastal Structures. The papers cover a broad range of topics including theory, numerical and physical modeling, field measurements, case studies, design, and management. Coastal Engineering 2008 provides coastal engineers, scientists, and planners, with state-of-the-art information on coastal engineering and coastal processes.

• Waves:
  • Random Wave Breaking Models — History and Discussion (J Battjes)
  • Nonlinear Wave Transformation and Runup Over Fringing Coral Reef (O Nwogu & Z Demirbilek)
  • Water Waves Propagating Over Mud (R Dalrymple)
  • Wave Physics in a Tidal Inlet (L Holthuijsen)
• Swash, Nearshore Currents, and Long Waves:
  • Experiments on Bottom Roughness Experienced by Currents Perpendicular to Waves (O S Madsen et al.)
  • Predicting the Influence of Climate Changes on Hurricane Flooding (J L Irish et al.)
  • Wave Setup in US Flood Insurance Studies (R G Dean et al.)
  • Predicting the Influence of Climate Change on Hurricane Flooding (J L Irish et al.)
  • A Critical Discussion on the Solitary Wave Paradigm for Tsunamis (P Madsen)
• Sediment Transport and Morphology:
  • A Two-Scale Approach to Nearshore Sediment Transport Modeling (B D Johnson & J M Smith)
  • Sea Level Variability and Coastal Evolution (M A Losada et al.)
  • Regional Beach Volume Changes on Decadal to Century Time Scales — Central South Carolina USA (T W Kana & D J Gaudiano)
  • Long-Term Simulations of Subaerial Beach Erosion and Overwash During Storms (M Larson & N C Kraus)
• Coastal Structures:
  • Further Developments on the Wave Overtopping Simulator (J W van der Meer et al.)
  • Non-Conventional Wave Damping Structures: Hydraulic Performance (H Oumeraci)
  • New Formulation of Wave Transmission Over and Through Low Crested Structures (Y Goda & J Ahrens)
  • Analyses of Stability of Caisson Breakwater on Rubble Foundation Exposed to Impulsive Loads (H F Burcharth et al.)
  • Indonesia — Japan Joint Survey on 2006 Java Earthquake Tsunami Disaster (S Takahashi et al.)
• Coastal Management, Environment, and Risk:
  • Coastal Zones and Climate Change: A Sediment Perspective Perception on Adaptation (J Mulder et al.)
  • The Role of Regional Sediment Management in Coastal Zone Management (L Ewing et al.)
  • Flood Risk Analysis and Management in Europe — The Way Ahead (A Kortenhaus & H Oumeraci)
• and other papers