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Rafael Almar
Researcher at University of Toulouse
Publications - 153
Citations - 3160
Rafael Almar is an academic researcher from University of Toulouse. The author has contributed to research in topics: Shore & Swash. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 126 publications receiving 2049 citations. Previous affiliations of Rafael Almar include Pontifical Catholic University of Chile & Centre national de la recherche scientifique.
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Field Survey of the 27 February 2010 Chile Tsunami
Hermann M. Fritz,Catherine M. Petroff,Patricio A. Catalán,Rodrigo Cienfuegos,Patricio Winckler,Nikos Kalligeris,Robert Weiss,Sergio Barrientos,Gianina Meneses,Carolina Valderas-Bermejo,C. W. Ebeling,Athanassios Papadopoulos,Manuel Contreras,Rafael Almar,Juan Carlos Dominguez,Costas E. Synolakis +15 more
TL;DR: On 27 February 2010, a magnitude Mw = 88 earthquake occurred off the coast of Chile's Maule region causing substantial damage and loss of life Ancestral tsunami knowledge from the 1960 event combined with education and evacuation exercises prompted most coastal residents to spontaneously evacuate after the earthquake Many of the tsunami victims were tourists in coastal campgrounds.
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Under-estimated wave contribution to coastal sea-level rise
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the contribution of thermal expansion and land ice loss to long-term sea-level changes at interannual-to-multidecadal timescales.
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Two- and three-dimensional double-sandbar system behaviour under intense wave forcing and a meso–macro tidal range
Rafael Almar,Rafael Almar,Bruno Castelle,Bruno Castelle,B.G. Ruessink,Nadia Senechal,Nadia Senechal,Philippe Bonneton,Philippe Bonneton,Vincent Marieu,Vincent Marieu +10 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the meso-macro-tidal double-barred Truc Vert Beach, SW France, under intense wave forcing was analyzed using hourly, 10-min time-exposure video images.
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Response of the Bight of Benin (Gulf of Guinea, West Africa) coastline to anthropogenic and natural forcing, Part1: Wave climate variability and impacts on the longshore sediment transport
Rafael Almar,Elodie Kestenare,Johan Reyns,Julien Jouanno,Edward J. Anthony,Raoul Laibi,Mark Hemer,Y. Du Penhoat,Ranasinghe W M R J B Ranasinghe,Ranasinghe W M R J B Ranasinghe +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a general overview of coastal evolution in the Bight of Benin and the physical processes that control this evolution is provided. But, little is known of the environmental drivers, notably the wave climate, that governs longshore sediment transport and the ensuing pattern of shoreline evolution of this coastal zone.
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Requirements for a Coastal Hazards Observing System
J. Benveniste,Anny Cazenave,Stefano Vignudelli,Luciana Fenoglio-Marc,Rashmi Shah,Rafael Almar,Ole Baltazar Andersen,Florence Birol,Pascal Bonnefond,Jerome Bouffard,Francesc M. Calafat,Estel Cardellach,Paolo Cipollini,Gonéri Le Cozannet,Claire Dufau,M. J. Fernandes,Frédéric Frappart,James L. Garrison,Christine Gommenginger,Guoqi Han,Jacob L. Høyer,Villy Kourafalou,Eric Leuliette,Zhijin Li,Hubert Loisel,Kristine S. Madsen,Marta Marcos,Angélique Melet,Benoit Meyssignac,Ananda Pascual,Marcello Passaro,Serni Ribó,Remko Scharroo,Y. Tong Song,Sabrina Speich,John Wilkin,Philip L. Woodworth,Guy Wöppelmann +37 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the main forcing agents acting on coastal regions (e.g., sea level, winds, waves and currents, river runoff, sediment supply and transport, vertical land motions, land use) and the induced coastal response are discussed.