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In this tool (coastline development) you can compute alongshore sediment transports and shoreline dynamics.
The tool requires a shoreline, cross-shore profile and , a wave climate and sediment characteristics (you can inspect the generic data availability in the top panel of the tool).
Breakwaters will also be used , fully blocking alongshore transports when computing shoreline dynamics.in case they are provided. Breakwaters fully block alongshore transports at the nearest coastline grid point.
Alongshore transports are based on either the Kamphuis or or CERC alongshore alongshore sediment transport formula.
Shoreline dynamics are computed through alongshore transport gradients based on shoreline orientation relative to the wave direction. The computation is performed on a staggered 1-dimensional coastline grid.
Transport gradient gradients give rise to shoreline position changes, which in turn results in changing alongshore transports in time.
How to use the tool
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