Publications by authors named "Iacopo Carnacina"
Salt marshes provide valuable nature-based, low-cost defences protecting against coastal flooding and erosion. Storm sedimentation can improve the resilience of salt marshes to accelerating rates of sea-level rise, which poses a threat to salt marsh survival worldwide. It is therefore important to be able to accurately detect the frequency of storm activity in longer-term sediment records to quantify how storms contribute to salt marsh resilience.
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- The article explores how increased storm intensity, particularly surge height, affects estuarine salt marshes, focusing on the Ribble Estuary as a case study.
- Using the Delft3D hydrodynamic model, it simulates scenarios showing that higher storm surges lead to flood dominance and a net import of sediment, benefiting the sediment budget of marshes.
- The study finds that factors like storm surge timing relative to tides, surge duration, and vegetation presence have minimal impact on the sediment budget, suggesting its utility for comparing effects across different coastal systems.
The objective of the article is to describe the methodology followed to validate the finite element model for the new method of setting pipes in a separate sewer system, using one trench to accommodate the storm pipe over the sanitary pipe "doi.org/10.1016/j.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe performance of sewer networks has important consequences from an environmental and social point of view. Poor functioning can result in flood risk and pollution at a large scale. Sediment deposits forming in sewer trunks might severely compromise the sewer line by affecting the flow field, reducing cross-sectional areas, and increasing roughness coefficients.
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