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This book includes papers published in the Special Issue titled “Coastal Dynamic and Evolution”, which aimed to collect multidisciplinary studies that involved the evaluation of coastal evolution at different temporal scales, from hours and days to months and years, as well as historical changes. The volume contains investigations carried out by means of aerial photos and satellite images, as well as results from in situ surveys and observations aimed at assessing morphological changes in shoreline and dune systems as a consequence of chronic flooding and erosion processes or the occurrence of specific weather-related events. Studies on the evaluation of past and future sea-level variations and related impacts have also been included. In order to provide the reader with a wide overview of different coastal settings and methodological approaches, case studies from Russia, Italy, California (USA), Morocco, Spain, Indonesia, Ireland and Colombia have been included in this Special Issue. The content may be of interest to those who perform a wide range of investigations related to coastal analysis and management, especially to researchers and academics who can exploit the provided approaches and methodologies.

cultural heritage --- shoreline dynamics --- GIS --- UAV --- Palaeolithic --- Volga --- European Russia --- XBeach --- inundation --- erosion --- BSS --- Sant Esteve 2008 --- coarse sediment --- D50 --- sieving --- sand size --- sand parameters --- coastal dynamics --- aesthetic appeal --- Baltic Sea --- coastal dunes --- Curonian Spit --- Delphi technique --- paired comparison survey --- psychophysical approach --- Jakarta Bay --- sea level rise --- river discharge --- flooding --- tides --- currents --- beach ridges --- mathematical reconstruction --- curve fitting --- Ombrone River Delta --- coastline --- cliff and bluff retreat --- erosion rate --- uncertainty --- sea-level rise --- adaptive management --- Alicante --- beach nourishment --- CIEL*a*b* --- coastal management --- Costa Blanca --- mineralogical characterization --- sediment colour --- tourism --- western Mediterranean --- EOF --- beach profiles --- reef flat --- sand rich --- accretion --- mangrove --- coastal dynamic --- salinization --- Rhizophora mangle --- Avicennia germinans --- Laguncularia racemosa --- wave energy --- Hurricane Katia --- longshore transport --- dissipative --- tsunami propagation --- tsunami flooding --- sicilian coast --- coastal hazard --- dune characterization --- anthropic occupation --- fragmentation index --- dune surface --- coastal landscape evolution --- geomorphological analysis --- palaeo-shore platform --- relative sea-level changes --- sea-level proxy --- vertical ground movements --- campi flegrei volcanic area --- coastal landscapes --- coastal evolution assessment

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This one-of-a-kind book presents many of the mathematical concepts, structures, and techniques used in the study of rays, waves, and scattering. Panoramic in scope, it includes discussions of how ocean waves are refracted around islands and underwater ridges, how seismic waves are refracted in the earth's interior, how atmospheric waves are scattered by mountains and ridges, how the scattering of light waves produces the blue sky, and meteorological phenomena such as rainbows and coronas.Rays, Waves, and Scattering is a valuable resource for practitioners, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates in applied mathematics, theoretical physics, and engineering. Bridging the gap between advanced treatments of the subject written for specialists and less mathematical books aimed at beginners, this unique mathematical compendium features problems and exercises throughout that are geared to various levels of sophistication, covering everything from Ptolemy's theorem to Airy integrals (as well as more technical material), and several informative appendixes.Provides a panoramic look at wave motion in many different contextsFeatures problems and exercises throughoutIncludes numerous appendixes, some on topics not often coveredAn ideal reference book for practitionersCan also serve as a supplemental text in classical applied mathematics, particularly wave theory and mathematical methods in physics and engineeringAccessible to anyone with a strong background in ordinary differential equations, partial differential equations, and functions of a complex variable

Mathematical physics. --- Physical mathematics --- Physics --- Mathematics --- Airy approximation. --- Airy functions. --- Airy integral. --- Airy theory. --- Airy wavefront. --- Alexander's dark band. --- Bessel functions. --- Earth. --- Fermat's principle. --- Fresnel integrals. --- Hamilton's principle. --- Hamilton-Jacobi equation. --- Hamilton-Jacobi theory. --- Hamiltonian. --- Hooke's law. --- Kepler's laws of planetary motion. --- Lagrangian. --- Liouville transformation. --- Love waves. --- Navier equations. --- Ptolemy's theorem. --- Rayleigh scattering. --- Schrödinger equation. --- Sir George Biddle Airy. --- Snell's laws. --- Taylor–Goldstein equation. --- WKB(J) approximation. --- Wiechert-Herglotz inverse problem. --- acoustic wave propagation. --- action. --- angle of minimum deviation. --- applied mathematics. --- atmospheric waves. --- billow clouds. --- boundary-value problem. --- buoyancy waves. --- caustics. --- classical mechanics. --- classical wave equation. --- colors. --- complex plane. --- constant phase lines. --- contours. --- corona. --- currents. --- cusp catastrophes. --- deep water waves. --- differential equations. --- diffraction catastrophes. --- diffraction. --- dispersion relations. --- dispersion. --- divergence problem. --- earthquakes. --- eikonal equation. --- elastic solid. --- elastic waves. --- elementary mathematics. --- equations of motion. --- fluid equations. --- fold catastrophes. --- free surface. --- geometric wavefronts. --- geometrical optics. --- glory. --- inhomogeneous medium. --- integrals. --- intensity law. --- internal gravity waves. --- inverse scattering problem. --- islands. --- leading waves. --- lee waves. --- light waves. --- long waves. --- mathematics. --- meteorological optics. --- mountain waves. --- ocean acoustic waveguides. --- ocean acoustics. --- ocean waves. --- one-dimensional waves. --- optics. --- path. --- plane wave incident. --- plane waves. --- polarization. --- potential well. --- rainbow. --- ray equations. --- ray optics. --- ray theory. --- rays. --- reflection. --- refraction. --- ridge. --- scattering. --- seafloor. --- seismic rays. --- seismic tomography. --- seismic waves. --- semicircle theorem. --- shallow water waves. --- ship waves. --- short waves. --- strain. --- stratified fluid. --- stress. --- surface gravity waves. --- surface waves. --- transient waves. --- tsunami propagation. --- tsunamis. --- wave energy. --- wave refraction. --- wave trapping. --- wavefront. --- wavepackets. --- waves. --- wind shear.