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Creator:: Ruggiero, Peter
Abstract:: The relative contributions of sea level rise (SLR) and increasing extra-tropical storminess to the frequency with which waves attack coastal features is assessed with a simple total water level (TWL) model. For the coast of the U.S. Pacific Northwest (PNW) over the period of wave-buoy observations (~30 years) wave height...
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Full Text:: Northwest increasing flooding and 1 erosion risk faster than sea level rise? 2 3 Peter Ruggiero 1 4

Creator:: Di Leonardo, Diana and Ruggiero, Peter
Abstract:: Understanding sandbar dynamics and variability is integral to developing a predictive capacity for nearshore flows, sediment transport, morphological change, and ultimately for determining coastline exposure to damaging storm waves. Here we report on a nearshore bathymetric data set from the U.S. Pacific Northwest (PNW) that stretches from Point Grenville, Washington...
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Full Text:: Variability: Observations from the U.S. Pacific Northwest Diana Di Leonardo a,1 and Peter Ruggiero a

Creator:: Mull, Jeremy and Ruggiero, Peter
Abstract:: Coastal foredunes protect lives, infrastructure, and ecosystems during severe storms. A range of approaches, ranging from simple (e.g., geometric) to complex (e.g., process-based) predictive models, have been developed to quantify overtopping and foredune retreat during storms. At present, however, there is no widely accepted approach for assessing the vulnerability of...
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Full Text:: 1,2 and Peter Ruggiero 3 Submitted to: Journal of Coastal Research 1 Department of Civil

Creator:: Serafin, Katherine A. and Ruggiero, Peter
Abstract:: Coastal flood hazard zones and the design of coastal defenses are often devised using the maximum recorded water level or a ‘‘design’’ event such as the 100 year return level, usually projected from observed extremes. Despite technological advances driving more consistent instrumental records of waves and water levels, the observational...
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Full Text:: using a time-dependent, extreme value approach Katherine A. Serafin1 and Peter Ruggiero1 1College of

Creator:: Serafin, Katherine A., Ruggiero, Peter, and Parker, Kai
Abstract:: Extreme water levels generating flooding in estuarine and coastal environments are often driven by compound events, where many individual processes such as waves, storm surge, streamflow, and tides coincide. Despite this, extreme water levels are typically modeled in isolated open-coast or estuarine environments, potentially mischaracterizing the true risk of flooding...
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Full Text:: oceanographic and fluvial processes driving extreme along-river water levels Katherine A. Serafin1,2, Peter

Creator:: Ruggiero, Peter, Holman, Robert A., and Beach, R. A.
Abstract:: Because of highly dissipative conditions and strong alongshore gradients in foreshore beach morphology, wave run-up data collected along the central Oregon coast during February 1996 stand in contrast to run-up data currently available in the literature. During a single data run lasting approximately 90 min, the significant vertical run-up elevation...
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Full Text:: beach Peter Ruggiero Coastal and Marine Geology Program, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California

Creator:: Guannel, Greg, Arkema, Katie, Ruggiero, Peter, and Verutes, Gregory
Abstract:: Natural habitats have the ability to protect coastal communities against the impacts of waves and storms, yet it is unclear how different habitats complement each other to reduce those impacts. Here, we investigate the individual and combined coastal protection services supplied by live corals on reefs, seagrass meadows, and mangrove...
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Full Text:: , Peter Ruggiero3, Gregory Verutes1 1 The Natural Capital Project, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Creator:: Ruggiero, Peter, Kaminsky, George M., Gelfenbaum, Guy, and Cohn, Nicholas
Abstract:: Findings from nearly two decades of research focused on the Columbia River littoral cell (CRLC), a set of rapidly prograding coastal barriers and strand-plains in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, are synthesized to investigate the morphodynamics associated with prograding beaches. Due to a large sediment supply from the Columbia River, the...
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Full Text:: observations of the Columbia River littoral cell Peter Ruggiero a,⁎, George M. Kaminsky b, Guy Gelfenbaum c

Creator:: Garcia-Medina, Gabriel, Özkan-Haller, H. Tuba, Ruggiero, Peter, and Oskamp, Jeffrey
Abstract:: An operational inner-shelf wave forecasting system was implemented for the Oregon and southwest Washington coast in the U.S. Pacific Northwest (PNW). High-resolution wave forecasts are useful for navigational planning, identifying wave energy resources, providing information for site-specific coastal flood models, and having an informed recreational beach user group, among other...
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Full Text:: , Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon H. TUBA €OZKAN-HALLER AND PETER RUGGIERO College of Earth

Creator:: Kaminsky, George M., Ruggiero, Peter, Buijsman, Maarten, McCandless, Diana, and Gelfenbaum, Guy
Abstract:: This paper details the historical coastal evolution of the Columbia River littoral cell in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Geological data from A.D. 1700 and records leading up to the late 1800s provide insights to the natural system dynamics prior to significant human intervention, most notably jetty construction...
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Full Text:: COLUMBIA RIVER LITTORAL CELL George M. Kaminsky1*, Peter Ruggiero2, Maarten Buijsman3, Diana

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