SYMBOLS AND DEFINITIONS 



A long-term rate of sea level rise (feet per year) 



B distance from shore to the depth contour beyond which there is no 

 significant sediment motion (feet) 



d water depth below which there is no significant sediment motion 

 (feet) 



e base of the Napierian logarithms (2.71828. . . .) 



h height of beach berm or bluff (feet) 



£n logarithm to the base e 



Ax shoreline retreat rate (feet per year) 



y ordinate of the beach profile (feet) 



y datum correction factor used to fit beach profile to exponential 

 curve (feet) 



a empirical coefficient that describes the rate at which water depth 



increases offshore (slope of beach profile plotted on semilogarithmic 

 graph paper) (feet -1 ) 



