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  • Detached breakwater
    ...to parallel, to the coast, build inside or outside the surf zone. Detached breakwaters are mainly built with two purposes, either to protect a ship wharf from wav ...finitions of coastal terms#Headland|headlands]]. See also [[Application of breakwaters]].
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  • Revetments
    The following article discusses the fixing of the coastline by revetments. ...le and interlocking. In this way their functionality is increased in terms of absorption and strength.
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  • Sand dune - Country Report, Latvia
    ...in the Netherlands in November 1991. It attempted to provide a description of the [[sand dunes|sand dune vegetation]], sites and [[conservation]] issues ...pool, UK (Doody ed. 2008)<ref>Doody, J.P., ed. 2008. ''Sand Dune Inventory of Europe, 2nd Edition''. National Coastal Consultants and EUCC - The Coastal
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  • Tsunami
    ...he wavelength of wind-generated waves and much smaller than the wavelength of tidal waves. }} [[Image:RingofFireUSGS.jpg|thumb|300px|left|Figure 1: Ring of fire around the Pacific. Image USGS.]]
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  • Diffraction
    ...his view, wave propagation into a semi-closed area is the interference sum of all the waves that propagate radially from a wave front at the open boundar ...of breakwaters or other structures in nearshore waters make generally use of physical scale models or numerical models for determining the wave diffract
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  • Topic:Engineering
    =Overview of Coastal Wiki articles related to engineering measures= * [[Detached breakwaters]]
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  • Accretion and erosion for different coastal types
    ...for three different types of ports is also described in the article [[Port breakwaters and coastal erosion]]. ...coasts (for a more detailed description, see the article [[Classification of sandy coastlines]]).
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  • Sand dune - Country Report, Poland
    ...in the Netherlands in November 1991. It attempted to provide a description of the [[sand dunes|sand dune vegetation]], sites and [[conservation]] issues ...pool, UK (Doody ed. 2008)<ref>Doody, J.P., ed. 2008. ''Sand Dune Inventory of Europe, 2nd Edition''. National Coastal Consultants and EUCC - The Coastal
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  • Sand dune - Country Report, Portugal
    ...in the Netherlands in November 1991. It attempted to provide a description of the [[sand dunes|sand dune vegetation]], sites and [[conservation]] issues ...pool, UK (Doody ed. 2008)<ref>Doody, J.P., ed. 2008. ''Sand Dune Inventory of Europe, 2nd Edition''. National Coastal Consultants and EUCC - The Coastal
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  • Wave energy converters
    ...ated at about 30,000 TWh/yr (3.10<sup>13</sup> kWh/yr), which is about 20% of the 2019 world energy consumption. However, due to technological and econom ...tion). From Rusu and Rusu (2021<ref>Rusu, L. and Rusu, E. 2021. Evaluation of the Worldwide Wave Energy Distribution Based on ERA5 Data and Altimeter Mea
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  • Overtopping resistant dikes
    ...ing with the Wave Overtopping Simulator. In: Coasts, marine structures and breakwaters, Adapting to change 2: 460-473</ref>. * Erosion of the inner slope by overtopping waves is a major cause of dike failure.
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  • Gravel Beaches
    ...ynamics. Earth science Reviews 79 33-52.</ref>. In the UK, about one third of the coastline is protected by such beaches <ref name ="Fuller 1988">Fuller, ...Coates, T. T. (1993). UK South Coast shingle beach study: storm response of shingle beaches. HR Wallingford Report SR 323.</ref>. Two examples from th
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  • Wave energy converters in coastal structures
    ...ilt in shallow water where the depth imposes the maximal amplitude because of wave breaking. ...nnels are dredged in response to the increase of maritime traffic and size of container carriers.
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  • Modelling coastal hydrodynamics
    ...investigated. Research is being carried out to improve the representation of tides, waves, currents, and surge in coastal waters. <br> ...from the three methodologies are presented together with an extensive list of references.
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  • Scaling Issues in Hydraulic Modelling
    ...he need of using physical modelling. There is also little public awareness of the physics behind several coastal processes and physical modelling can hel ...ing, its advantages in relation to numerical modelling, some basic aspects of physical modelling, related scaling issues and how to control hydraulic mod
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  • Coastal hydrodynamic and morphodynamic processes and engineering
    This article presents an overview of the Coastal Wiki content (July 2017) on coastal hydrodynamic and morphodyna * pages of Wikipedia
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  • Sand-filled geosystems in coastal engineering
    ...practitioners in general, insight in the applications and the limitations of sand-filled geosystems in coastal engineering and guide them forward to fur ...systems. They can be filled with sand, gravel or mortar, yet only the use of sand as filling material is considered in this article.
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  • Decision Support Systems for coastal risk assessment and management
    ...adaptation options, and finally for the selection of the best combination of measures that can promote coastal safety and sustainability in a changing c ...ires communicating present and possible trends in risk, building awareness of potential impacts and their implications.
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  • Extreme storms
    ...ing Hurricane Ernesto in 2006. (credit: U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior/USGS, U.S. Geological Survey/photo by Susan Caplan) )]] ...t: NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce)]]
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  • Rhythmic shoreline features
    ...and sand (see [[Wave ripples]] and [[Wave ripple formation]]). The origin of the shoreline undulations is unknown but they are probably self-organized t ...with a wavelength <math>L</math> or, at least, there exists the suggestion of a recurrent alongshore spacing <math>L</math>. We then refer to these undul
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