Open AccessTRANSPORT OF NILE SAND ALONG THE SOUTHEASTERN MEDITERRANEAN COAST
Author(s) -
Zev Carmel,
Douglas L. Inman,
Abraham Golik
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
proceedings of conference on coastal engineering/proceedings of ... conference on coastal engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2156-1028
pISSN - 0589-087X
DOI - 10.9753/icce.v19.87
Subject(s) - sediment transport , bay , shore , sink (geography) , nile delta , geology , mediterranean climate , sediment , oceanography , delta , mediterranean sea , hydrology (agriculture) , geomorphology , environmental science , geography , geotechnical engineering , cartography , physics , archaeology , astronomy , water resource management
The potential for longshore sediment transport (LST) is estimated from a three-year set of directional wave data measured off Haifa, Israel. The resulting annual cycle of LST, together with an analysis of the wave and shore characteristics, suggests a wave-induced sediment transport mechanism with a uni-directional annual transport that gradually decreases along the transport path from the source (Nile delta) to sink (Haifa Bay). Existing estimates of the rates of transport of Nile sediment are in good agreement with this result.