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Sediment budget of a cuspate shoreline and its influence on spit development—Lagoa dos Patos, Brazil

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The coastal sediment budget is an essential tool to understand erosion/accretion patterns along coastlines and to predict future changes. This work is one of the first approaches of a coastal sediment budget study in a cuspate shoreline covering the whole embayment-spit system. Taking this into consideration, this study aims to estimate the main longshore sediment transport patterns and propose a conceptual model of the regional sediment budget of the lagoon cuspate shoreline (Lagoa dos Patos-Brazil), while also analyzing its influence on the spit development. To do so, representative wind conditions (direction and speed) were used to force a validated lagoon wave model utilizing the process-based modeling suite Delft3D. The potential longshore sediment transport was computed along widely distributed cross-sections, based on representative wave cases, and the annual sediment budget was estimated. The results showed a pattern of inter-related source and storage areas along the bay beaches and the occurrence of short-term nodal zones (convergent and divergent), which have an important control on the regional sediment budget of the coast. The central littoral cells of the embayments behave as temporary sediment storage areas, while the southern littoral cells act as sources of sediments to the spits. The findings of this study demonstrate the important control that short-term nodal zones have on the annual coastal sediment budget of complex coastline shapes and, the importance of the budget of the adjacent updrift cell to the sediment supply for the spits.

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We would like to thank the general improvement of this manuscript (methods, results, discussion, and figures) through the constructive, and detailed comments from two anonymous reviewers. We especially thank the meticulous and insightful comments and suggestions, performed by Review#01. The authors also would like to acknowledge and PFRH-Petrobrás program n° PB-215, for the student grant provided during the development of the first author’s Ph.D. thesis, and the Griffith Centre for Coastal Management (GCCM), Griffith University (AU) for the internship opportunity which made possible the present work, and the research agency CAPES for funding. Also, thank you to the comittee members of the first author’s Ph.D. thesis, Dr. Susana Costas, Dr. Cristiano Fick and Dr. Lauro Calliari, for their valuable comments and recommendations.

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    Inaiê Malheiros Miranda & Elírio Ernestino Toldo Jr

  2. Laboratório de Oceanografia Costeira, Coordenadoria Especial de Oceanografia (OCN), Centro de Ciências Físicas E Matemáticas (CFM), Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Campus Universitário – Trindade, Florianópolis, SC, 88040-900, Brazil

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Miranda, I.M., Toldo, E., da Fontoura Klein, A.H. et al. Sediment budget of a cuspate shoreline and its influence on spit development—Lagoa dos Patos, Brazil. Geo-Mar Lett 42, 4 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00367-021-00724-5

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