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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Main Authors: C. W. Thomas, A. B. Murray, A. D. Ashton, M. D. Hurst, A. K. A. P. Barkwith, M. A. Ellis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2016-12-01
Series:Earth Surface Dynamics
Online Access:https://www.earth-surf-dynam.net/4/871/2016/esurf-4-871-2016.pdf