Abstract
This study aims to report the short-term coastline dynamics and inundation limits of coastal cities along the Eastern Pacific due to the sea swell events that occurred during April to May 2015. The multi-temporal satellite datasets from Landsat such as Enhanced Thematic Mapper (L7 ETM+) and Operational Land Imager/Thermal Infrared Sensor (L8 OLI/TIRS) of different periods before and after the swell events were used to identify the shoreline changes. The satellite images were pre-processed using ERDAS imagine 9.2, and the coastline was digitized in ArcGIS 10.4.1 for ten cities spread across from Mexico to Chile (in Pacific coast) using the spectral water indices, and the shoreline change rate and erosion/accretion pattern at each transect were estimated using the statistical parameters embedded in Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS). The maximum erosion and accretion were observed in El Salvador (268 m) and Huatulco (Mexico) (115 m), respectively. Likewise, the maximum inundation was observed in El Salvador with 268 m and Acapulco (Mexico) with 254 m, and the tide gauge data suggest a possible relation to the bathymetry and the geomorphological conditions of the coast. Overall, the results indicate that the Eastern Pacific Ocean side sea swell events has led to extreme coastal flooding in recent years due to the increase in the mean sea level and the unpredictable variation in El Niño/Southern Oscillation events.
Abbreviations
- ACE:
-
Accumulated Cyclone Energy
- CENAPRED:
-
Centro Nacional de Prevención de Desastres (National Center for Disaster Prevention)
- CONAGUA:
-
Comisión Nacional del Agua, Mexico (National Water Commission)
- DSAS:
-
Digital Shoreline Analysis System
- ENSO:
-
El Niño Southern Oscillation
- ESRI:
-
Environmental System Research Institute
- GLS:
-
Geographical Information System
- L7ETM:
-
Landsat Enhanced Thematic Mapper
- LAC:
-
Latin American countries
- MNDWI:
-
Modified Normalized Difference Water Index
- Mts:
-
Meters
- NSM:
-
Net Shoreline Movement
- ONEMI:
-
Oficina Nacional de Emergencia del Ministerio del Interior y Seguridad Publica, Chile (National Emergency Office of the Ministry of Interior)
- SCE:
-
Shoreline Change Envelope
- SLR:
-
Sea level rise
- SMN:
-
Servicio Meteorológico Nacional, Mexico (National Meteorological Service)
- SSE:
-
Sea swell events
- TPMC:
-
Technology Planning and Management Corporation
- USGS:
-
United State Geological Survey
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MPJ thank the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI), CONACyT, Mexico. PGP and FRH thank CONACyT for the research fellowship. Thanks to Dr. V.C. Shruti for her initial idea in this work. This article is the 110th contribution (partial) from the Earth System Science Group (ESSG), Chennai, India (participating members: PGP, JMP, GM, CL).
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Godwyn-Paulson, P., Jonathan, M.P., Hernandez, F.R. et al. Coastline variability of several Latin American cities alongside Pacific Ocean due to the unusual “Sea Swell” events of 2015. Environ Monit Assess 192, 522 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-020-08469-x
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