Impacts des houles exceptionnelles sur le littoral ivoirien du Golfe de Guinée

• Published in: Géomorphologie : relief, processus, environnement
• Main Authors: Konan, Konan Ernest, Abe, Jacques, Aka, Kouamé, Neumeier, Urs, Nyssen, Jan, Ozer, André
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: Groupe français de géomorphologie 2016
• Subjects: coastal erosion; accretion; seismic origin; exceptional swells; érosion côtière; engraissement; courbe enveloppe; séisme; houles exceptionnelles; geo; The Beaches; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/geomorphologie/11241

This study integrates the impacts of swells with significant morphologic impact in the analysis of the coastal sediment budget and of coastline mobility; in this case, the swells occurring in August 2007 on the coast of the Gulf of Guinea, east of Abidjan. Swells were not often taken into account in...