Synoptic-scale to mesoscale atmospheric  circulation connects fluvial and coastal  gravel conveyors and directional deposition  of coastal landforms in the Dead Sea basin

Eyal, Haggai; Armon, Moshe; Enzel, Yehouda; Lensky, Nadav G.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-11-547-2023

Articles | Volume 11, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-11-547-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-11-547-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 4

Research article

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06 Jul 2023

Research article |

| 06 Jul 2023

Synoptic-scale to mesoscale atmospheric circulation connects fluvial and coastal gravel conveyors and directional deposition of coastal landforms in the Dead Sea basin

Haggai Eyal, Moshe Armon, Yehouda Enzel, and Nadav G. Lensky

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-11-547-2023-supplement

Data sets

Synoptic- to meso-scale circulation connects fluvial and coastal gravel conveyors and directional deposition of coastal landforms in the Dead Sea basin H. Eyal, M. Armon, Y. Enzel, and N. G. Lensky https://doi.org/10.17632/65bhpwftrh.1

Video supplement

Nahal Og beach - the 25.12.2019 largest storm wave H. Eyal https://doi.org/10.5446/59268

Nahal Og - the 28.2.2019 flash flood H. Eyal https://doi.org/10.5446/59269

Air flow circulation over the Dead Sea under Mediterranean cyclones indicated by the movement of clouds H. Eyal https://doi.org/10.5446/59267

Short summary

Extracting paleoenvironmets from sedimentologic and geomorphic records is a main goal in Earth sciences. We study a chain of processes connecting causative Mediterranean cyclones, coeval floods, storm waves generated by mesoscale funneled wind, and coastal gravel transport. This causes northward dispersion of gravel along the modern Dead Sea coast, which has also persisted since the late Pleistocene, resulting in beach berms and fan deltas always being deposited north of channel mouths.