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De Vet, P.L.M. (author), McCall, R.T. (author), Den Bieman, J.P. (author), Stive, M.J.F. (author), Van Ormondt, M. (author)In 2012, Hurricane Sandy caused a breach at Fire Island (NY, USA), near Pelican Island. This paper aims at modelling dune erosion, overwash and breaching processes that occured during the hurricane event at this stretch of coast with the numerical model XBeach. By using the default settings, the erosion rates are substantially overestimated,...conference paper 2015