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• ICZM-Best practice case study in the Bay of Luebeck
  The area is characterized by two spits that separate former lagoons from the Baltic Sea. These spits have a mean elevation of about 2.5-3.0 met
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• Characteristics of muddy coasts
  Estuarine areas and coastal lagoons are sinks for fine-grained sediment on an annual time scale. The processes ...ion in accumulation rates with the highest rates in the inner parts of the lagoons and the lowest rates close to the tidal inlet and in deeper parts of the ar
  9 KB (1,308 words) - 15:59, 15 May 2021
• Definitions of coastal terms
  ...annels]] meet. Bars that partially block the openings to minor streams and lagoons are mainly due to [[#Littoral drift|littoral drift]]; these bars are genera ...[#Tidal inlet|tidal inlets]] of [[#Estuary|estuaries]] and [[#Lagoon|tidal lagoons]].
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• Waves
  ...wind conditions. Seiches can occur in closed water areas, such as lakes or lagoons, and in semi-closed water bodies, such as bays. The period of the seiche os
  20 KB (2,992 words) - 16:09, 14 February 2024
• Currents
  ...ant from a morphological point of view. In very shallow coastal waters and lagoons, the wind-generated current can, however, be of some importance. Wind-gener
  14 KB (2,112 words) - 14:00, 20 January 2024
• Bar
  ...annels]] meet. Bars that partially block the openings to minor streams and lagoons are mainly due to littoral drift; these bars are generally referred to as s
  2 KB (297 words) - 12:22, 27 March 2021
• Sea
  ...ends into major bays, but not into channels, creeks, rivers, estuaries and lagoons. These internal waters are characterised by having brackish to fresh water
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• Coastal pollution and impacts
  ...e to direct sources of input, are doubly at risk for example estuaries and lagoons.
  26 KB (3,841 words) - 16:44, 20 February 2024
• How to apply models
  The parameters of importance for development of good quality beaches and lagoons are the following: ...eclamation of new land, establishment of new water bodies by excavation of lagoons and establishment of new artificial beaches. The following concentrates on
  18 KB (2,697 words) - 11:29, 20 February 2024
• Transport and dispersion of pollutants, nutrients, tracers in mixed nearshore water
  # Transverse shear instabilities (jet flows from lagoons or rivers, mixing layers, wakes), and
  19 KB (2,775 words) - 16:03, 7 October 2021
• Tidal asymmetry and tidal inlet morphodynamics
  ...ible for tidal wave deformation in shallow coastal inlet systems – tidal lagoons and estuaries. A qualitative discussion is given of the mutual interaction ...Many of these basins (but not all) are back-barrier tidal basins or tidal lagoons: basins that are semi-closed by a sand barrier at the entrance. The figure
  53 KB (8,417 words) - 12:56, 20 January 2024
• Dalyan-Koycegiz Special Protected Area
  ...urkey. It has a very diverse landscape of rivers, fresh water lake, delta, lagoons, sandy beaches, hills and sloping pine forests. The length of the sea coast ...stem having different sub-units such as the sea; freshwater lake; estuary, lagoons and wetlands; sand spit; agricultural land, hills and forest. One can ident
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• Definitions, processes and models in morphology
  ...polluted sediments are: channelization of rivers, closing of channels and lagoons, and extension and deepening of navigation channels and harbour basins. The
  11 KB (1,603 words) - 22:20, 1 July 2020
• Greek case studies: The implications of the expected sea level rise on the low lying areas of continental Greece in the next century
  ...es of low lying coastal areas of continental Greece in the form of deltas, lagoons, coastal alluvial plains and pocket beaches and their significant settlemen ...tinct features of Greek coastal zones can be classified as deltaic plains, lagoons, coastal plains, pocket beaches and steep coasts.
  6 KB (955 words) - 12:47, 31 July 2020
• Estuary
  * tidal lagoons – drowned coastal plains semi-closed by a barrier system;
  4 KB (540 words) - 13:40, 20 January 2024
• Mediterranean Sea and Region, including Adriatic Sea
  ...the future. It is interesting to note the shared and high vulnerability of lagoons, [[estuary|estuaries]], deltas and arctic coasts to [[sea level rise]], as ...ered as a model and indicator for global impacts of [[climate change]] for lagoons and coasts.
  11 KB (1,724 words) - 10:56, 1 August 2020
• Effects of global climate change on European marine biodiversity
  ...about 1 to 2 °C, in the next decades. Exceptions are semi enclosed marine lagoons and shallow bays that may mirror the atmospheric temperature rise as well.
  16 KB (2,428 words) - 13:04, 21 February 2024
• Salt marsh
  *Salt marshes usually form in sheltered coastal systems, such as [[#Lagoon|lagoons]] and [[#Estuary|estuaries]] where fine sediments can be deposited. Salt ma
  2 KB (328 words) - 18:22, 7 March 2023
• Mangroves
  Mangroves are frequently associated with saline [[Lagoon|lagoons]] and are regularly found on protected sides of islands, [[Island atolls|at
  42 KB (6,310 words) - 17:09, 21 April 2024
• Seagrass meadows
  seagrass ecosystems in shallow coastal lagoons: role of feedbacks with sediment resuspension and light attenuation. J. Geo
  37 KB (5,414 words) - 20:23, 24 December 2023

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