Complex coastlines responding to climate change: do shoreline shapes reflect present forcing or “remember” the distant past?
A range of planform morphologies emerge along sandy coastlines as a function of offshore wave climate. It has been implicitly assumed that the morphological response time is rapid compared to the timescales of wave climate change, meaning that coastal morphologies simply reflect the extant wave...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2016-12-01
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Series: | Earth Surface Dynamics |
Online Access: | https://www.earth-surf-dynam.net/4/871/2016/esurf-4-871-2016.pdf |