Coastal hydrodynamic and morphodynamic processes and engineering
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Introduction
This article presents an overview of the Coastal Wiki content (December 2016) on coastal hydrodynamic and morphodynamic processes, long term geomorphological change, climate impacts and coastal engineering (articles in blue). This content was initiated by the ENCORA themes 5 and 8.
The article also indicates missing topics (articles in red). Please help us fill these gaps by expanding and claiming these missing topics.
For some gaps alternative websites are indicated, in particular:
- pages of Wikipedia
- pages of the Australian coastal website http://www.ozcoasts.gov.au/index.jsp
- pages in English of the Dutch Deltaproof website http://deltaproof.stowa.nl/Publicaties/deltafact.aspx?pId=1739
Coastal hydrodynamics
Coastal Wiki articles
- Hydrodynamic modelling
- Modelling coastal hydrodynamics
- How to apply models
- Reduction of uncertainties through Data Model Integration (DMI)
- Using model simulations to support monitoring - Methods&Techniques
- Using model simulations to support monitoring - Implementation & Results
Coastal Wiki gap
- Hydrodynamic processes and equations - introduction to the mathematical formulation of major physical processes that should be addressed in models for different types of coastal systems (sediment transport formulas are addressed in other articles)
Waves
Coastal Wiki articles
- Waves - introduction to: short waves (types of short waves, wave breaking, wave generation, wave transformation, statistical description of wave parameters, wave climate classification according to wind climate), long waves (surf beat, harbour resonance, seiche, tsunami), infragravity waves, measurement of waves
- Waves and currents by X-band radar - wave measurement technique
- Using satellite data for global wave forecasts
- Infragravity waves - introduction to characteristics of infragravity waves, their generation, interaction with nearshore morphology, seiches
Incomplete articles
- Wave transformation needs expansion with general introduction to propagation of random waves into shallow water, wave breaking and dissipation, breaking criteria, radiation stress, shoaling, setdown, wave breaking, roller energy, setup, sediment transport, observations, empirical formulas, models
- Statistical description of wave parameters needs expansion on wave spectrum, Rayleigh distribution, intra-wave interaction
- Edge waves definition should be expanded: periods incident waves, reflection, dissipation, propagation, coastally trapped waves
Coastal Wiki gaps
- Types of ocean wave - progressive, standing, surface, internal, gravity, capillary, wind wave, swell, tide, planetary or Rossby (coriolis+horiz plane), tsunami, ship waves. Diagram of types of wave, showing the relationships between wavelength, wave frequency, forces and energy
- Wave theory – introduction, linear wave theory, Stokes wave theory, solitary waves, Cnoidal waves, wave asymmetry and skewness
- Wind wave generation – introduction to underlying processes, fetch, saturated wave field, wave-wave interaction, wave spectrum
- Wave refraction, diffraction and reflection - introduction to underlying principles, morphological consequences of convergence and divergence of wave rays (shoreline orientation, accretion, erosion), morphodynamic feedback (relation with bar dynamics) and nearshore modelling
- Wave transformation in the nearshore - introduction to propagation of random waves into shallow water, wave breaking and dissipation, breaking criteria, radiation stress, sediment transport, observations, empirical formulas
- Wave-current interaction
- Swash – introduction to swash characteristics, importance for sediment exchange between land and sea, uprush, downrush, in/exfiltration, infragravity swash, sediment transport, morphodynamic feedback, beach berm, modelling, practical formulas for different beach types
- Wave runup – theory, models, wave overtopping, practical formulas
- Tsunamis - introduction to tsunami generation, propagation, shoaling, runup, dissipation, modelling, observations, empirical formulas
- Wave impact – lift force on structures, impact, practical formulas
- Ship waves - wash or wake, Kelvin wave pattern, supercritical wash
- Wave modelling - operational, coastal, computational fluid dynamics, smoothed particle hydrodynamics
External references
Tides
Coastal Wiki articles
Incomplete articles
- Tides needs revision
- Tidal prediction needs expansion : harmonic method, tidal constituents, specific examples
- Storm surge definition needs expansion: storm surge prediction, storm surge modelling, storm surge impact
Coastal Wiki gaps
- Tides in the oceans
- Tidal asymmetry – introduction to tidal topographically induced wave distortion in shallow coastal systems
- Tidal bores- introduction to tidal wave propagation in shallow water, bore development and propagation/dissipation, bore types, relation with channel geometry and bed roughness, observations, modelling, practical formulas, implications for sediment transport
External references
Currents
Coastal Wiki articles
- Currents introduction to currents in the Open Sea (tidal, wind-generated, storm surge), current in the nearshore zone (shore-parallel, shore-normal, undertow, rip currents, cross-currents), two-dimensional currents in the nearshore zone
- Waves and currents by X-band radar - measurement method of currents
- Currents and turbulence by acoustic methods - measurement method of currents
- Use of ground based radar in hydrography - measurement method of currents
- Coriolis acceleration
- Bedforms and roughness
- Bed roughness and friction factors in estuaries
Incomplete articles
- Longshore current – definition needs expansion: generation of longshore currents, theory, practical formulas
- Rip currents - definition needs expansion: introduction to characteristics of rip-cells, their importance, occurrence, hydrodynamics, morphodynamic feedbacks, influence of tides, storms, modelling, practical formulas, implications for coastal management
Coastal Wiki gaps
- Wind driven currents – sea surface entrainment, turbulence, Ekman theory
- Density-driven currents – buoyancy, stratification, turbulence damping, entrainment, modelling
- Turbulence – generation, coherent flow structures, dissipation, Kolmogorov theory, spectrum, shear stress, diffusion, mixing length
Transport and mixing processes
Coastal Wiki articles
- Seawater intrusion and mixing in estuaries
- Estuarine circulation
- Salt wedge estuaries
- Dynamics and structure of the water and matter ex-change between the Wadden Sea and the German Bight
- Transport and dispersion of pollutants, nutrients, tracers in mixed nearshore water
- Shelf sea exchange with the ocean
- Suspended particulate matter distribution in the North Sea
- Index of vulnerability of littorals to oil pollution
- Oil spill monitoring
- Water quality services GMES - MarCoast in Germany
Incomplete articles
- Stratification – needs expansion: stability criteria, internal waves, Kelvin-Helmholz instability, turbulence damping, internal friction, mixing
Coastal Wiki gaps
- Transport and mixing processes in shelf seas - introduction to concepts and processes, field studies, modelling, ecosystem implications
- River plume dynamics - introduction to major physical processes, observation methods, field examples and practical simulation models
External references
Flood risk
Coastal Wiki articles
- Chances and risks
- Extreme storms
- Decision Support Systems for coastal risk assessment and management
- Risk and coastal zone policy: example from the Netherlands
- Flood risk analysis study at the German Bight Coast
Coastal Wiki gaps
- Extreme event analysis - Gumbel, Weibull distributions, exceedance probability, dependence and joint probability, return period
- Flood risk general article
- Risk management strategies general article
Coastal sediments and sediment transport
Coastal Wiki articles
- Manual Sediment Transport Measurements in Rivers, Estuaries and Coastal Seas series of articles on sediment transport measurement, with many subtopics
- Sediment deposition and erosion processes
- Dynamics of mud transport
- Sand transport
- Sediment transport formulas for the coastal environment
- Coastal Hydrodynamics And Transport Processes - introduction to sediment transport in general, onshore and offshore transport and equilibrium coastal profile, transport of non-cohesive sediments
Incomplete articles
- Sediment - needs update with links to specific topics
Coastal Wiki gaps
- Sediment classification - grain size, gravel, sand, boulder, shape, flat, round, type, cohesive, non-cohesive
- Graded beds – sorting processes, seabed armouring, erosion, deposition, modelling
- Sediment budget coastal systems
- Boundary layer processes and sediment transport - introduction to the boundary layer concept (waves, current, waves+current), turbulence, temporal-spatial scales, bed-flow interaction, velocity and acceleration skewness, flat/rippled/sloping beds, sediment transport processes, onshore-offshore asymmetry, observation, modelling, practical formulas
- Current ripples and dunes – formation processes, theoretical background, modelling
- Wave ripples - introduction to characteristics of wave-induced ripples, conditions of occurrence, seabed instability, morphodynamic feedback processes, wavelength selection, pattern formation and evolution, initial state, defects, final state
- Cross-shore sediment transport - shoaling zone, breaker zone, swash zone
- Aeolian transport – from beach to dunes, influence of grainsize, fetch, tides, moisture, vegetation, dune formation, modelling
- Estuarine sedimentation and turbidity maximum - introduction to characteristics of turbidity maxima, underlying processes (tidal asymmetry, estuarine circulation), impact on sedimentation and water quality, conditions of occurrence, relation with dredging and reclamation in estuaries, observations, modelling
External references
Coastal morphology
Wave-dominated coasts
Coastal Wiki articles
- Classification of coastlines deals with nearly straight coastlines (with overview of coastal characteristics), special coastal planforms (delta coastlines, sand spits, barrier islands, mechanisms and conditions for barrier island development), barrier formation; effect of development
- Coastal zone characteristics - introduction to different coastal types
- Classification of coastal profiles
- Gravel Beaches
- Long-term modelling using 1-line models - GENESIS and new extensions needs expansion and update of longshore sediment transport with recent formulas
- Data-driven models and statistical approaches
Incomplete articles
- Rocky shore morphology – needs expansion to cliff morphology, sediment input, shore platforms, stacks, headlands, etc.
- Beach berm – expand definition and add section on berm formation
Coastal Wiki gaps
- Typology of coastlines – introduction to different coastline classification schemes, accretional, erosional coasts, beaches, estuaries, inlets, deltas, cliffs, mudflats, dunes, stacks, headlands, blowholes
- Wave-dominated coast general introduction: barriers, beaches, breaker bars, intertidal bars and runnels
- Macrotidal coasts - introduction to: characteristics of macrotidal coasts (compared to micro- or mesotidal coasts), variability, major involved hydrodynamic and morphodynamic processes, resilience, response to sea-level rise
- Mud coasts (or Fluvial-dominated coasts ) - introduction to the particular characteristics of mud coasts (compared to sand coasts) and the processes responsible for their formation, evolution and maintenance, threats and response to sea-level rise
- Typology of mangrove coasts – morphological-ecological interaction
- Equilibrium coastal profile – empirical models, theoretical background, applicability
- Coastal barrier formation - introduction to characteristics of coastal barriers, their importance, processes responsible for their formation, evolution and maintenance, threats to existing coastal barriers (human interventions and sea-level rise), good management practices
- Breaker bar dynamics – development, evolution and decay of breaker bars in the surf zone, underlying morphodynamic processes and modelling
- Coastal profile response to storms – profile steepening, breaker bar dynamics (migration, formation)
- Shoreline planform – pocket beach equilibrium planform, shoreline rotation
- Beach-dune interaction - introduction to major processes of coastal dune formation and erosion, and practical modelling concepts
- Reef systems
External references
Deltas, estuaries and lagoons
Coastal Wiki articles
- Morphology of estuaries - classification of estuaries, tide-dominated, river-dominated, wave-dominated estuaries, examples
- Wave-dominated river deltas
- Estuarine morphological modelling
- Physical processes and morphology of synchronous estuaries
- Case studies: Long term predictions for estuaries
- Salt marshes
- Dynamics, threats and management of salt marshes
- Salt marshes in Europe and temporal variability
Incomplete articles
- Estuaries and tidal rivers – introduction to different types of estuaries
- Mudflat – needs expansion of existing definition, mudflat morphology and morphodynamics (interaction morphology-tide-waves-biology), link to saltmarsh morphology
- Fjords – definition needs to be expanded: formation process, hydrodynamics
- Coastal squeeze – article must be revised and expanded: introduction to the concept of coastal squeeze, influential factors, how does it happen, consequences, examples, how to avoid, how to mitigate, lessons from practice
- Characteristics of muddy coasts - needs revision and expansion to include wave influence and interactions ecology-hydrodynamics-morphology.
Coastal Wiki gaps
- Rias – definition, impact of geological constraints on hydrodynamics and morphodynamics
- Tidal lagoons – evolution, morphodynamics
- Tide-dominated river deltas - introduction to characteristics of tidal deltas with high liquid and solid river discharge, major processes for their formation, evolution and maintenance, resilience and threats, response to sea-level rise
- Ebb-tidal deltas – tide- and wave-driven morphodynamics, interaction with tidal basin morphodynamics
- Estuarine morphodynamics – morphodynamic feedback, equilibrium planform, equilibrium hypsometry, tidal flats, alternating bars, channel meandering, channel bifurcation
- Sedimentation of navigation channels and harbours - introduction to sedimentation processes, formation of turbidity maximum and fluid mud layers, relation with channel dredging, field examples, modelling
- Estuary response to sea-level rise
- Estuary channelization - impact on hydrodynamics, salt intrusion, sedimentation, turbidity, field cases, modelling
- Tidal flat reclamation – morphodynamic response, consequences for physical and ecological processes in estuaries and options for restoration
- ICZM issues in estuaries
- Bio-geomorphology of salt marshes – landscape dynamics of salt marshes resulting from the interaction between biotic and physical processes
External references
- Embayments and drowned river valleys
- Wave-dominated estuaries
- Coastal lagoons
- Wave-dominated deltas
- Alteration of hydrodynamics
- Tidal creeks
Coastal morphology measuring techniques
Coastal Wiki articles
- Bathymetry from inverse wave refraction
- Data processing and output of Lidar
- Hyperspectral seafloor mapping and direct bathymetry calculation in littoral zones
- Instruments for bed level detection
- Space geodetic techniques for coastal zone monitoring
- Argus applications
- Argus image types and conventions
- Argus standard image processing
- Argus video
- Argus video monitoring system
- Data analysis and Statistical Approaches
Coastal morphodynamic modelling and self-organisation
Coastal Wiki articles
- Stability models
- Beach Cusps
- Process-based modelling
- Process-based morphological models
- Geomorphological analysis
- Behaviour-based models
- Parametric equilibrium models
- Long-term modelling using 1-line models - GENESIS and new extensions
- Stochastic and fractal methods in coastal morphodynamics
Coastal Wiki gaps
- Coastline instability - introduction to conditions for coastline instability, occurrence, characteristics of unstable coastlines, observations, processes, morphodynamic feedback, modelling, practical formulas, implications for coastal management
- Morphodynamic selforganisation processes – principles of self-organisation and examples
- Rhythmic shoreline features – introduction to shoreline features that can be generated by morphodynamic feedback, such as megacusps, crescentic bars, transverse bars, large-scale shoreline features, large-scale instabilities associated to the littoral drift
- Large-scale bedforms in shelf seas - introduction to the characteristics of tidal ridges and shoreface-connected ridges, conditions and (feedback)processes for their formation, evolution and maintenance, some examples and idealised models
- Nearshore bed forms and bed roughness - introduction to the physical background and practical methods for representing the influence of bed forms and bed roughness in the nearshore zone in numerical models of waves, currents, mixing and sediment transport
- Sand waves - introduction to characteristics of sand waves, their practical importance, conditions and major (feedback)processes for their formation, evolution and maintenance, modelling, some examples and simple rules
- Bio-geomorphology of the coastal zone – morphological and ecological patterns in the coastal zone resulting from the interaction between biotic and physical processes
Coastal erosion
Coastal Wiki articles
- Bruun rule
- Closure depth
- Types and background of coastal erosion
- Natural causes of coastal erosion
- Human causes of coastal erosion
- Accretion and erosion for different coastal types
- Typical examples of structural erosion
- Dune erosion
- Coastal Erosion along the Changjiang Deltaic Shoreline
Coastal Wiki gaps
- Shoreline prediction – practical (data-driven) methods, applicability, storms, implication for coastal management
- Decadal coastal prediction - introduction to (data-driven) methods for predicting coastal evolution over decadal time scale
External references
Long-term morphodynamics and climate change
Coastal Wiki articles
- Geomorphological time scales and processes
- Effect of climate change on coastline evolution
- Potential Impacts of Sea Level Rise on Mangroves.
Incomplete articles
- Geomorphology – needs expansion to a general article linking to more specific articles
- Climate change - extend existing definition to general introduction to the topic
Coastal Wiki gaps
- Climate change impacts general article with links to more specific articles, and to articles on sea level change
- Stratigraphy of coastal systems – introduction to depositional/erosional seabed structures, relation with depositional and erosional processes, long-term morphodynamic processes, response to sea-level rise
- Long-term coastal evolution - introduction to evolution of sedimentary coasts during the Holocene, processes and interactions, modelling, response to future sea-level rise, implications for coastal management
- Quaternary geology - glaciology, case studies, saltmarsh climate change dating
- Sea level change - indications of former sea levels, causes of sea level change, pleistocene, holocene, present, future, isostacy and eustacy, tectonics, climate change
- Geomorphological modelling at geological time scale
- Seawater intrusion in coastal aquifers
- ICZM issues associated with long term geomorphology
Coastal protection and engineering
- Hard shoreline protection structures
- Protection against coastal erosion
- Hard structures and structural erosion
- Sand by-pass systems
- Groynes
- Groynes as shore protection
- Deteriorated groynes
- Detached breakwaters
- Detached shore parallel breakwaters
- Application of breakwaters
- Floating breakwaters
- Perched beaches
- Seawalls and revetments
- Overtopping resistant dikes
- Soft shoreline protection solutions
- Artificial reefs
- Natural barriers
- Dynamics, threats and management of biogenic reefs
- Sand-filled geosystems in coastal engineering
- Beach nourishment
- Artificial nourishment
- Shore nourishment
- Experiences with beach nourishments in Portugal
- Beach drainage
- Sand dune types - Europe
- Dynamics, threats and management of dunes
- Wave energy converters
- Wave energy converters in coastal structures
- Offshore wind farm development in Germany
Incomplete articles
- Dredging needs expansion with overview article of techniques and impact
Coastal Wiki gaps
- Experience with coastal nourishment in the Netherlands
- Coastal defence options - UK MAFF guidelines, do nothing, risk management, sustain, change
- Resonance phenomena - dealing with seiches in harbours and basins
- Disposal of dredged materials – including fate of dredged materials
- Sand mining in shelf seas - introduction to sand mining strategies (surface/depth of pits, frequency), impact on hydrodynamics, morphological evolution, ecological recovery, good practice guidelines
- Estuary engineering - deepening and channelisation of estuaries, tidal flat reclamation, impacts, coastal squeeze, managed realignment. (See also [
- Tidal power – introduction to methods for tidal energy exploitation, practical experience
- Marine wind energy introduction to methods and conditions for sustainable and efficient exploitation (technical, financial, environmental)
- Examples of marine wind farms – practical experience
External references
Categories:
- Land and ocean interactions
- Coastal processes, interactions and resources
- Geomorphological processes and natural coastal features
- Geological processes, soil and minerals
- Sediment shorelines
- Hydrodynamics
- Hydrological processes and water
- Coastal and marine natural environment
- Estuaries and tidal rivers
- Salt marshes
- Manual sediment transport measurements
- Coastal erosion
- Coastal erosion management
- Shoreline management
- Protection of coastal and marine zones
- Coastal flooding
- Coastal flooding management
- Coastal defence
- Coastal structures
- Techniques and methods in coastal management
- Policy and decision making in coastal management
- Practice, projects and case studies in coastal management
- Coastal and marine information and knowledge management
- Evaluation and assessment in coastal management
- Remote Sensing in Coastal and Marine Research
- Climate change and global warming
- Theme 5
