Upscaling Simple Models for Energetic Shelf Sediment Transport

In the context of STRATAFORM and EuroSTRATAFORM, the long-term goal of this project is to contribute toward simultaneously understanding (i) short term oceanic processes that erode, transport and deposit sediment in the margin system and (ii) the creation of the preserved stratigraphic architecture, seafloor morphology and sediment facies on continental margins. In order for models at such disparate time-scales to interact, they must communicate through expressions which upscale the underlying physical processes. Under Modeling Task D5, the EuroSTRATAFORM white paper specifically states: “Coherent techniques will be developed for upscaling individual processes/events into long-term stratigraphic-architecture and seascape-evolution models.”