Coastal dune response to extreme storms and multi-annual recovery along the atlantic coast of Europe
Résumé
Coastal dunes are natural barriers buffering storm waves, protecting coastal communities from flooding and rising sea level, and providing a valuable source of biodiversity for the surrounding environment (Grootjans et al., 2008). Although coastal dunes have received quite a lot of attention over the last decades (Hesp and Walker, 2013), knowledge gaps remain, and our understanding of long-term (years to decades) coastal dune evolution remains limited. The large diversity of coastal dunes along the Atlantic coast of Europe and the sequence of extreme storms observed during the 2013/14 winter, considered as the most energetic storms since at least 1948 (Masselink, 2016), represent a unique opportunity to study the spectrum of coastal dune response and recovery from an extreme winter.
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