The Temporal Evolution of Coastlines in the Bohai Sea and Its Impact on Hydrodynamics

Over the past 40 years, increasing coastal reclamation and natural sedimentation has changed coastline positions and resulted in variation in the hydrodynamic environment in the Bohai Sea (BHS), China. Based on the Landsat series images, an interpretative identifier for identifying the coastline was...

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Published in:Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2022-11, Vol.14 (21), p.5549
Main Authors: Lu, Jingfang, Zhang, Yibo, Lv, Xianqing, Shi, Honghua
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Amplitudes
coastline change
Coasts
Constituents
Data assimilation
Data collection
Fluid mechanics
Hydrodynamics
Kinetic energy
Landsat
Landsat satellites
Morphology
Ocean currents
Phase lag
Ports
Reclamation
Remote sensing
Satellite imagery
Sea level
Soil erosion
Tidal currents
tidal modeling with data assimilation
Topography
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Summary:Over the past 40 years, increasing coastal reclamation and natural sedimentation has changed coastline positions and resulted in variation in the hydrodynamic environment in the Bohai Sea (BHS), China. Based on the Landsat series images, an interpretative identifier for identifying the coastline was proposed to assess the hydrodynamic changes caused by the coastline change and was applied to a typical case of the Bohai Sea (BHS), China. We combined a grid-based coastline position with an adjoint data assimilation method to seamlessly map the distribution of the amplitude, phase lag, and tidal current of the M2 tidal constituent along the BHS’s coast from 1985 to 2018. Our findings reveal that the coastline change at long time scales dominated reclamation, and around 72.9% of the coastline of the BHS mapped in 2018 had seaward movement compared with its position in 1985. From 1985 to 2018, the BHS volume decreased by 0.17%, the sea surface area decreased by 4.54%, and the kinetic energy increased by 2.53%. The change in the coastline increased the amplitude of the M2 tidal constituent in the Bohai Bay by 6–14 cm and increased the residual current in the eastern coast of the Liaodong Bay by up to 0.07 (0.01) m/s.
ISSN:2072-4292
2072-4292
DOI:10.3390/rs14215549