Exposing the U.S. coastal zone

Coastal Zone and Estuaries

1. The Coastal Zone 1.1. Climate Change 1.2. Sea Level and Sea Ice Fluctuations 1.3. Coastal Processes 1.4. Sediment Delivery 1.5. Beaches 1.6. Tidal Flats and Marshes 1.7. Mangroves 1.8. Coral Reefs, Coral Cays, Sea Grasses, and Seaweeds 1.9. Eutrophication and Pollution 1.10. Coastal Evolution 2. Estuarine Environments 2.1. Estuaries 2.2. Coastal Lagoons 2.3. Deltas 2.4. Estuarine Evolution 3...

Tourism, Climate Change and the Coastal Zone

Waves and Mixing in the Coastal Zone

As part of our project entitled Wind, Waves, and Mixing in the Coastal Region (AO3-379) some measurements of waves and current profiles were performed in our study site. In the Pacific coast of Baja California, a wave and current sensor, a marine radar and a meteorological station have been in operation since mid 1998. Additionaly, a current meter profiler (adp) was installed for some days in e...

Kerala's Coastal Area: The case for a coastal zone management plan covering coastal land and water

The beautiful coast of Kerala is as much a part of the unique dynamics of Kerala's social history as its natural history. The several ports on the coast facilitated commercial and cultural links of a population confined between the idyllic Western Ghats ranges and the Arabian Sea. These links extended to almost all the major ancient civilizations in the world. The fortuitous winds blowing over ...

Large-scale Coastal Behaviour in Relation to Coastal Zone Management

Marcel J.F. Stive The development of coastal erosion management addressing typical traditional erosion problems towards coastal zone management addressing the evaluation of alternative solutions to guarantee a variety of coastal zone functions on their economic time scale has necessitated the formulation of large-scale coastal evolution (LSCE) models. Using the coastal evolution of the Netherla...