ICOASST - Integrating coastal sediment systems

R J Nicholls; A Bradbury; H Burningham; J Dix; M Ellis; J French; J W Hall; H U Karunarathna; J Lawn; S Pan; D E Reeve; Benedict D. Rogers; A Souza; P K Stansby; J Sutherland; O Tarrant; M Walkden; R Whitehouse

ICOASST - Integrating coastal sediment systems

R J Nicholls, A Bradbury, H Burningham, J Dix, M Ellis, J French, J W Hall, H U Karunarathna, J Lawn, S Pan, D E Reeve, Benedict D. Rogers, A Souza, P K Stansby, J Sutherland, O Tarrant, M Walkden, R Whitehouse

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UK coasts are subject to widespread erosion in part due to the cumulative effect of human intervention on soft coastlines, and further threatened due to more rapid change due to climate change, especially sea-level rise. At the same time, Shoreline Management now requires predictions of coastal evolution up to 100 years in the future. This leads to the challenge of predicting coastal geomorphic behaviour at the mesoscale (101 to 102 km and 101 to 102 years). Currently, this is often based on expert judgement. However, relevant components for mesoscale coastal simulation are emerging, including: (1) new methods for system-level analysis of coast, estuary and offshore landform behaviour, which include engineering and management interventions in a consistent manner to natural drivers; (2) well validated 'bottom-up' hydrodynamic and sediment transport models such as POLCOMS and TELEMAC; (3) operational 'reduced complexity models' of selected coastal landforms (e.g., cliffs (SCAPE), estuaries (ASMITA), saltmarsh (SLAMM)); and (4) growing observational datasets that allow data-driven approaches to coastal analysis and prediction. The iCOASST Project will use these components to develop and apply an integrated systems modelling framework for mesoscale coastal simulation as explained in this paper.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	host publication
Publication status	Published - 2012

Keywords

Climate change impact
Coastal management
Data-driven approach
Management interventions
Reduced complexity
Sediment transport model
Shoreline management
System-level analysis
Climate change
Coastal engineering
Coastal zones
Erosion
Models
Sea level
Sediment transport
Computer simulation

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Nicholls, R. J., Bradbury, A., Burningham, H., Dix, J., Ellis, M., French, J., Hall, J. W., Karunarathna, H. U., Lawn, J., Pan, S., Reeve, D. E., Rogers, B. D., Souza, A., Stansby, P. K., Sutherland, J., Tarrant, O., Walkden, M., & Whitehouse, R. (2012). ICOASST - Integrating coastal sediment systems. In host publication http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84884959812&partnerID=40&md5=1b94c3e44bf5bac40161c337c49096be

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