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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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