Large-scale Coastal Behaviour

Large-scale coastal behaviour is an attempt to model the morphodynamics of coastal change at time and space scales appropriate to management and prediction. Temporally this is at the decade to century scale, spatially at the scale of tens of kilometers. It was developed by de Vriend.

Modelling large-scale coastal behaviour involves some level of parameterisation rather than simply upscaling from process or downscaling from the geological scale. It attempts to recognise patterns occurring at these scales. Cowell and Thom (2005) recognise the need to admit uncertainty in large-scale coastal behaviour given incomplete process knowledge.

Coastal geography
Landforms
  • Anchialine pool
  • Archipelago
  • Atoll
  • Avulsion
  • Ayre
  • Barrier island
  • Bay
  • Baymouth bar
  • Bight
  • Brackish marsh
  • Cape
  • Channel
  • Cliff
  • Cliff-top dune
  • Cliffed coast
  • Coast
  • Coastal plain
  • Coastal waterfall
  • Continental margin
  • Continental shelf
  • Coral reef
  • Cove
  • Dune
  • Estuary
  • Firth
  • Fjard
  • Fjord
  • Flat coast
  • Freshwater marsh
  • Fundus
  • Gat
  • Geo
  • Graded shoreline
  • Gulf
  • Headland
  • Inlet
  • Intertidal wetland
  • Island
  • Islet
  • Isthmus
  • Lagoon
  • Machair
  • Marine terrace
  • Mega delta
  • Mouth bar
  • Mudflat
  • Natural arch
  • Peninsula
  • Raised shoreline
  • Reef
  • Regressive delta
  • Ria
  • River delta
  • Rocky shore
  • Salt marsh
  • Shoal
  • Shore
  • Sound
  • Stack
  • Steep coast
  • Strait
  • Strand plain
  • Submarine canyon
  • Tidal island
  • Tidal marsh
  • Tide pool
  • Tied island
  • Tombolo
  • more ...


Beaches
  • Beach cusps
  • Beach evolution
  • Beach morphodynamics
  • Beach ridge
  • Beachrock
  • Modern recession of beaches
  • Pocket beach
  • Raised beach
  • Shingle beach
  • Storm beach
  • Wash margin
Processes
  • Blowhole
  • Coastal erosion
  • Concordant coastline
  • Current
  • Cuspate foreland
  • Discordant coastline
  • Emergent coastline
  • Feeder bluff
  • Fetch
  • Headlands and bays
  • Large-scale coastal behaviour
  • Longshore drift
  • Marine regression
  • Marine transgression
  • Rip current
  • Sea cave
  • Sea foam
  • Shoal
  • Spit
  • Submergent coastline
  • Surf break
  • Surf zone
  • Surge channel
  • Swash
  • Volcanic arc
  • Wave-cut platform
  • Wave shoaling
  • Wind wave
  • Wrack zone
Management
  • Accretion
  • Coastal management
  • Integrated coastal zone management
  • Submersion
Related
  • Bulkhead line
  • Coastline length
  • Intertidal zone
  • Littoral zone
  • Particle size
    • boulder
    • cobble
    • clay
    • granule
    • pebble
    • sand
    • shingle
    • silt
  • Physical oceanography
  • Region of freshwater influence
  • more ...

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