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• Offshore zone
  {{Definition|title=Offshore zone ...f the [[surf zone]] or off the [[littoral zone]]. In the Coastal Wiki, the offshore zone is usually defined as the zone off the [[shoreface]]<ref name="Karsten
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• Preparation of offshore wind farm development in Germany
  ...ance, Sweden, United States, China, Spain and Germany have announced their offshore wind power development plans. The increase of wind energy contributes to cl ...ble energy system. It has regulated for the first time feed-in-tariffs for offshore wind farms in the German coastal zone and the [[exclusive economic zone]] (
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• Socio-economic importance of Multi-use Offshore Platforms
  ===Offshore wind energy=== ...Association: [s.l.<nowiki>]</nowiki>. 22 pp.]</ref>. It is envisaged that offshore wind could meet 4% of the EU electricity demand by 2020 and 14% by 2030 <re
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• Groynes
  ...son to impermeable or high groynes<ref>Pilarczyk K. & R.B. Zeidler.(1996): Offshore Breakwaters and Shore Evolution Control. "Balkema", the Netherlands pp560.<
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• Port breakwaters and coastal erosion
  Pilarczyk K. and Zeidler R. ''Offshore breakwaters and shore evolution control''.Balkema Edition
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• Characteristics of muddy coasts
  .... [[Silt]] and [[clay]] are not stable in the littoral zone and are washed offshore. If large amounts of fines are supplied, mud flats and mangrove areas may d
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• Definitions of coastal terms
  ...ters at the leeside. It can be linked to the shore or it can be positioned offshore. A common type is the '''detached breakwater'''. This is a structure approx ...Flood deltas and ebb-tidal deltas are generally present at the inshore and offshore sides (respectively) of [[#Tidal inlet|tidal inlets]] of [[#Estuary|estuari
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• Coastal Hydrodynamics And Transport Processes
  ==Onshore and Offshore Transport and Equilibrium Coastal Profile== Varying wave conditions result in varying onshore and offshore transports over the coastal profile. These transports are, to some extent,
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• Natural causes of coastal erosion
  ...cell is a pocket beach enclosed between headlands, assuming absence of net offshore or onshore sand transport. The orientation of the beach can change in respo ...can be eroded by storm waves (see [[Dune erosion]]). In the absence of net offshore or onshore sand transport and in the absence of gradients in [[littoral dri
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• Human causes of coastal erosion
  Besides, groynes generate or strengthen offshore-directed currents – so-called [[rip current]]s. These rip currents are da ...reater than at non-walled locations. Winter season waves dragged more sand offshore in front of walls but summer swell waves piled more sand up against walls i
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• Detached breakwaters
  *Offshore breakwaters ===Offshore breakwaters===
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• Shore nourishment
  ...astal zone. Placement in onshore nourishment sites makes use of pipes; for offshore sites, sand is dumped by split barges or by rainbowing (Fig. 1). For small ...ater adjusted using a bulldozer (Fig. 1). The sand source can be either an offshore supply via a cross-profile pipeline, floating or buried, or it can be suppl
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• Perched beaches
  ...be a good solution for preserving beaches on urbanized rocky coasts where offshore sand resources are scarce. The perched beach is not an appropriate concept
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• Beach drainage
  ...d backwash. The uprush moves sand onshore while the backwash transports it offshore, see [[Swash zone dynamics]].
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• Waves
  ...wave energy resource assessment. In: Proceedings of the 18th International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 6–11 July 2008; ...M. 2017. Types of Ocean Surface Waves, Wave Classification. Encycl. Marit. Offshore Eng. 2017: 1–8</ref>:
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• Wave transformation
  ...wave height at breaking. As a rule of thumb, the wave set-up is 20% of the offshore significant wave height. Gradients in wave set-up, e.g. in partly sheltered ...f an onshore phase with decelerating upwards flow (uprush or swash) and an offshore phase with accelerating downwards flow (downrush or backwash)
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• Currents
  ...ip currents have their principal axes oriented perpendicular to the beach (offshore) while longshore currents act parallel to the beach. These currents are all ...re [[wave set-up]] gradient (representing [[radiation stress]] decay). The offshore discharge of water is compensated by the onshore directed mass transport an
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• Breakwater
  ...ters at the leeside. It can be linked to the shore or it can be positioned offshore.}}
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• Closure depth
  ...uch as the beach adjacent to a long jetty, at which sediment may be jetted offshore by a-large [[rip current]] or an ebb [[tide|tidal]] shoal where the tidal c ...e, a shoal or buffer zone which is usually called lower shoreface and an [[offshore zone]] or shelf zone. This partition defines two closure depths, namely:
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• Offshore zone
  {{Definition|title=Offshore zone ...f the [[surf zone]] or off the [[littoral zone]]. In the Coastal Wiki, the offshore zone is usually defined as the zone off the [[shoreface]]<ref name="Karsten
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• Rip current
  ...urrents are wave-generated currents that depart from the nearshore zone in offshore direction. }} '''a narrow offshore directed jet flow generated by a local imbalance between wave-induced [[rad
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• Shoreface
  ...ar definition is: The shoreface is the zone seaward of the shoreline where offshore generated waves interact with the upward sloping seabed. The shoreface can
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• Shoreline management
  ...der:2px solid lightblue;text-align: left"| Influences sediment movement on offshore zones, links nearshore processes with far field effects. ...xt-align: left"| Basic description of coastline; Physical significance (eg offshore banks dissipate wave energy, cliffs can provide a sediment supply etc.); Wi
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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 CO₂ 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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• Coastal meteorology
  ...ogy is the study of meteorological phenomena within about 100 km inland or offshore of a coastline. Improved understanding of the processes in the meteorology ....e., the flow will not remain perpendicular to the pressure gradient). The offshore influence of mountain coasts is given by the Rossby radius of deformation,
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• Greek case studies: Long term geomorphological changes in the coastal zone of the Thermaikos Gulf, Salonika Region, North Greece
  ...ecent). This suggests that the shoreline was initially inshore and shifted offshore due to debris deposition. The human impact was focused primary on the seafr
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• EUROSION project
  ...e storms) or in the long term (at least 100 years). They can be identified offshore, in the coastal zone (both above and below low water) and in the hinterland
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• Development of a geographical dictionary in the context of NOKIS
  ...names and administrative units are generated. Compared to the land, in the offshore area westward from the "Wadden" only a few toponyms might be found. For NOK
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• The Integrated approach to Coastal Zone Management (ICZM)
  ...the overlapping of physical geography and hydrography (inshore, shoreline, offshore), of jurisdictions, legal mandates and the remits of government agencies an
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• Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM)
  Shore parallel: [[Detached shore parallel breakwaters|Offshore breakwater]] ([[Artificial reefs|concrete, stone]], [[Sand-filled geosystem [[Biogenic reefs of Europe and temporal variability|Natural offshore reef]] <br/>
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• UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
  ..., the technological progress accomplished for fishing in deep sea, mining, offshore oil extraction and the ever-increasing risks of human activities for the na
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• Floating breakwaters
  ...gu, 1987. Wave loads and motions of long structures in directional seas, J Offshore Mech Arct Eng 109, 126–132. *Isaacson M. and S. Sinha, 1986. Directional wave effects on large offshore structures, J. of Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering, 112(4), 48
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• Mediterranean Sea and Region, including Adriatic Sea
  ...lyfish near the shore, as freshwater currents no longer keep the jellyfish offshore. The predominance of jellyfish and [[algal bloom]]s in coastal waters and a ...he construction of coastal structures and defences and the construction of offshore structures.
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• Acoustic point sensors (ASTM, UHCM, ADV)
  ...w with and without waves (Paper U). In: ''Sand transport and morphology of offshore sand mining pits'', edited by Van Rijn et al., ISBN90-800356-7-x. Aqua Publ
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