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Storm surge
...in first approximation inversely proportional with the water depth in the offshore area off the [[shoreline]]. This means that shores out to deep oceans will

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Foresight project, UK
...required to improve understanding of how climate change may influence the offshore wave regime in terms of magnitude, frequency and, importantly, direction. T

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FUTURECOAST project, UK
...bility, emergence of new controls, breakdown of older features, changes in offshore topography). It should be recognised that we are presently at a point in ti ...eased or decreased wave [[diffraction]] processes around headlands or over offshore banks);

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Groynes as shore protection
...Under all circumstances, the jets will cause loss of sand to deeper water. Offshore directed sediment forms lobate deposition zones downdrift of the tips of th ...current running along the lee side of the structure. This eddy adds to the offshore sand loss and local seabed erosion and it is also dangerous for swimmers du

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Threats to the coastal zone
...the redistribution of contaminants through desorption from fine sediments. Offshore sand mining for beach nourishment and land reclamation and aggregate extrac

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Coastal pollution and impacts
...um.</ref>. Pollution accompanies most kinds of human activities, including offshore oil and gas production and marine oil transportation. Besides altering the ===Oil and gas and offshore installations===

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Tombolo
...diffraction and longshore drift to form a 'neck' connecting a coast to an offshore island or breakwater; or (2) A causeway-like [[accretion]] spit that connects an offshore rock or island to the main shore, or to another island.

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How to apply models
...oviding basis for establishment of a baseline description of the following offshore conditions: ...means that only local adjustments will take place dependent of the varying offshore wave conditions.

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Process-based morphological models
...refore been chosen to construct a time series of wave parameters along the offshore boundary of the model area which consists of situations where the significa ...resented in Fig. 6. The upper figure shows a one-month long time series of offshore waves, height and direction. The middle figure shows the morphological evol

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DeCyDe for Sustainability Policy tool
...rotection, land reclamation, tourism and sand/gravel extraction, shipping, offshore activities, fisheries, pollution) has a severe impact on coastal communitie

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Biotopes and classification systems
| rowspan="3"| meters to tens of meters (inshore -offshore direction) || 2) surf zone ||formation of shallow caves with floating algal | 4) offshore zone ||suitable for epi- and infauna, as well for macrophytes

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Analysis of coastal processes with Empirical Orthogonal Functions
..., D. G., Inman, D. L. and Winant, C. D. 1979. Seasonal patterns of onshore/offshore sediment movement. Journal of Geophysical Research 84: 6347-6354</ref>) as

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Blue carbon sequestration
...pes to the atmosphere. It appeared that CO<sub>2</sub> emissions following offshore outwelling largely exceeded long term sequestration in local soils during t

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Coastal mud belt
...p fine sediments settled to the shoreface bed and to carry these sediments offshore to deep water. This allows ongoing deposition of fine sediments in the beac ...ht. This stress acts on the fluid mud layer by pushing it onshore. Onshore-offshore asymmetry of the wave orbital motion due to nonlinearity of the interaction

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Waves and currents by X-band radar
Many offshore operations are critically dependent on the prevailing sea state. To enhance ...rements by X-Band radar systems are a reliable data source for supporting offshore as well as harbour operations or ship routing services.

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Stability models
...next to the coastline (inner shelf) and a plane horizontal bottom further offshore (outer shelf) together with an alongshore coastal current.

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Dune erosion
...ing hydrodynamic conditions, will be reshaped during a severe storm surge. Offshore directed sediment transport will occur, including sand eroded from the dune ...b current from nearby inlets, part of the sand can even be transported far offshore<ref name=MH/>. The slope of the cross-shore profile gradually decreases, an

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North Sea pollution from shipping: legal framework
Operators of offshore units under the jurisdiction of Parties are also required to have oil [[pol ...date). UK National Contingency Plan for Marine Pollution from Shipping and Offshore Installations - [http://www.mcga.gov.uk/c4mca/mcga-environmental/mcga-dops_

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Submarine groundwater discharge
...ndwater discharge can take place not only near the shore but also at great offshore distances. The latter occurs when confined aquifers, underneath the contine ...culation of seawater at the fresh-salt water interface and the onshore and offshore discharge of groundwater. Assumed were a constant linear slope and a fully

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Definitions, processes and models in morphology
COASTS AND OFFSHORE (Coastal and beach erosion, Beach restoration (sand, gravel), Beach nourish

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