Characterization of beach run-up patterns in Bagnoli bay during ABBACO project

ABSTRACT

This paper reports the results of an integrated atmospheric and wave run-up forecasting system, validated with in situ measured data, for the coastal site of Bagnoli, inside the Gulf of Pozzuoli, in the Thyrrenian Sea. A modelling chain consisting of Weather Research and Forecasting model, Wave Watch 3 model and a run-up calculator was used to obtain the ${\mathrm{R}\mathrm{u}}_{2\text{\%}}$ levels on the beach of Bagnoli, in the framework of the rehabilitation project of the industrial site. Hindcasted waves were validated with observed ones in intermediate depth, while run-up excursions were validated using video-monitoring system located on the beach. The run-up observations were obtained by time stack images analysed using video-monitoring system. An error compensation algorithm was implemented for the correction of the systematic deviations from the DGPS more precise measurements. Among the different schemes chosen for wave run-up prediction, the one of Stockdon et al. [Empirical parameterization of setup, swash, and runup. Coast Eng. 2006;53(7):573–588] was found to be outperforming in matching with the observed run-up levels. This result was expected because of the structure of this formula, which takes into account both the set-up and swash run-up contributions.

KEYWORDS:

• Wave numerical model
• beach run-up
• video monitoring
• scientific workflow

Acknowledgements

The authors are grateful to I.P.S.E.O.A ‘Rossini’ for hosting the video camera system, to the forecast service of the University of Napoli ‘Parthenope’ (http://meteo.uniparthenope.it) for the HPC facilities and to SZN for the data provided.

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Notes on contributors

D. Di Luccio is a Research Fellow at Department of Science and Technology of University of Naples “Parthenope” since 2016. Here she is earning the PhD in Environmental Phenomena and Risks in 2018, defending a thesis on the application of numerical simulation models to study the coastal hydrodynamics processes associated with the extreme weather-marine events. Her main research interests focus on the application of meteo-oceanographical modeling in High Performance Computing (HPC) environment to forecast and manage the potential risks for citizens and infrastructure deriving from weather-marine events. The applications are mostly focused to the coastal areas with the use of regional numerical models. Her interest is also focused on the use of data crowdsourcing platforms based on IoT and mobile/cloud computing technologies to collect useful data to improve the accuracy of numerical forecasting models.

G. Benassai received his Ph.D. in hydrodynamics from Genoa University, Genova, Italy, in 1991. Since 2002, he has been teaching hydraulics and coastal dynamics and shoreline protection at the University of Naples “Parthenope,” Naples, Italy. Since December 2006, he has been an Associate Professor in hydraulics (ICAR/01). From 2008 to 2010, he was the Director of the Master’s degree program in COASTAL RISK (I and II edition). In 2012, he joined the Board of Professors of the Ph.D. Course in environmental risks phenomena, University of Naples “Parthenope.” He was a Principal Investigator of more than 15 scientific research projects. He is the author or coauthor of more than 100 papers in maritime hydraulics and coastal protection fields. He is the author of an English textbook Introduction to Coastal Dynamics and Shoreline Protection (WIT Press, 2006). His research interests include coastal vulnerability and risk assessment, wave energy, marine spatial planning, numerical models for coastal hydrodynamics, and remote sensing application to coastal management. He is a reviewer for Ocean Engineering, Ocean and Coastal Management, Journal of Coastal Research, International Journal of Remote Sensing, Energy and other journals.

L. Mucerino works at University of Genoa, Italy. He obtained a PhD coastal geomorphology in 2016 and his current position is research fellow in Project MAREGOT - Programma Interreg Italia-Francia Marittimo 2014-2020. His recent research has focused on storm impacts, rip current circulation and tourism management in Ligurian coast. His main interests include geomorphological characteristic and evolution of mixed sand-gravel beach and video monitoring.

R. Montella works as assistant professor, with tenure, in Computer Science at Department of Science and Technologies, University of Naples “Parthenope”, Italy since 2005. He got his degree (MSc equivalent) in (Marine) Environmental Science at the University of Naples “Parthenope” in 1998 defending a thesis about the “Development of a GIS system for marine applications” scoring with laude and an award mention to his study career. He defended his PhD thesis about “Environmental modeling and Grid Computing techniques” earning the PhD in Marine Science and Engineering at the University of Naples “Federico II”.The research main topics and the scientific production are focused on tools for high performance computing, such as grid, cloud and GPUs with applications in the field of computational environmental science (multidimensional big data/distributed computing for modeling and scientific workflows and science gateways) leveraging on his previous (and still ongoing) experiences in embedded/mobile/wearable/pervasive computing and internet of things. He joined the CI/RDCEP of the University of Chicago as Visiting Scholar and as Visiting Assistant Professor working on the FACE-IT project. He leads the IT infrastructure of the University of Naples “Parthenope” Centre for Marine and Atmosphere Monitoring and Modelling (CCMMMA). He technically leads the University of Naples “Parthenope” research units of the European Project “Heterogeneous secure multi-level Remote Acceleration service for low-Power Integrated systems and Devices (RAPID)” focusing on GVirtuS development and integration (General purpose Virtualization Service) enabling CUDA kernel execution on mobile and embedded devices. He leads the local funded project: “Modelling mytilus farming System with Enhanced web technologies (MytiluSE)” focused on high performance computing based coupled simulations for mussel farms food quality prediction and assessment for human gastric disease mitigation. He leads the research prototype project: “FairWind: smart, cloud-based, multifunctional navigation system” targeting the coastal marine data gathering as crowdsourcing for environmental protection, development and management.

F. Conversano, Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences - Marine Sciences, technologist, Coordinator of the Access to Marine Ecosystems and Environmental Analysis Section (Research Infrastructures for marine biological resources Department at Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn of Naples), Joint Research Unit Manager EMSO-Italy (European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water column Observatory). His research focuses on the study of hydrological and biogeochemical cycles in the Mediterranean Sea in relation to atmospheric forcing and climate change, and in particular on flows and budgets of nutrients and dissolved oxygen in its water masses. In addition, he manages, organizes, and participates in, oceanographic cruises within national and international research projects and takes care of the management and organization of databases (oceanographic data collected). His roles in the projects include: scientific support to the study of fluid dynamics correlated to chemical, physical and biological data, within the context of biogeochemical cycles of the Mediterranean Sea, and the technological support for the acquisition, processing, graphical representation and analysis of oceanographic data. This second role includes know-how and management of oceanographic instrumentation. He participates and coordinates WP of some national funded research projects.

G. Pugliano is an associate professor of surveying and cartography at the Parthenope University of Naples, Italy. He has worked on many aspects of positioning-related algorithms and applications since his Ph.D. studies partly conducted at the Department of Geomatics Engineering at the University of Calgary, Canada. His research focuses on carrier phasebased positioning, integrated GNSS inertial systems and GNSS reflectometry.

U. Robustelli is a assistant professor of surveying and cartography at the Parthenope University of Naples, Italy. His research focuses on GNSS positioning, radio navigation signal. He has obtained his M.Sc. degree in telecommunication engineering Federico II University of Naples. In February 2008, he had a Ph.D. in Geodetic and Topographical Sciences.

G. Budillon is full Professor of "Oceanography and Atmospheric Physics" at the University of Naples "Parthenope" where is Director of the Department of Science and Technology. Since 1989, he has been involved in oceanographic studies in the Mediterranean Sea - where he carried out over 30 expeditions - and in Antarctica - where he carried out 15 oceanographic expeditions many of which as principal investigator. Since 2016 he is a member of the National Scientific Commission for Antarctica, since 2014 he is the national representative of the Southern Ocean Observing System and member of the SCAR (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research) Permanent Scientific Committee for Physical Sciences. Since 2018 he has been member of the Scientific Committee of the National Technological Cluster "Blue Italian Growth". He is author and co-author of more than 400 works including publications in national and international scientific journals, encyclopedic entries, conferences and conference proceedings.

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Funding

This study is part of a research agreement (CUP C62F16000170001), between Department of Science and Technologies (DiST) of University of Napoli ‘Parthenope’ and Stazione Zoologica of Napoli (SZN), included in the framework of the ABBACO (‘restauro Ambientale e Balneabilità del SIN BAgnoli-COroglio’) project, funded by Ministry of University and Research (MIUR).