Theme 5 gap filling project

Here, we aim to identify and list gaps within Theme 5 - Long term geomorphological change and climate impacts. Please help us fill these gaps by expanding and claiming the stubs listed here. Please use the New page and Help:Contents.

Hydrodynamics

Waves

1. Types of ocean wave - Progressive, standing, surface, internal, gravity, capillary, wind wave, swell, tide, planetary or rossby (coriolis+horiz plane), kelvin (coriolis+topog.), tsunami, ship waves. Diagram of types of wave, showing the relationships between wavelength, wave frequency, forces and energy.
2. Wind wave generation - Jefferies, Miles, Philips, WAM, WavewatchIII.
3. Linear wave theory / Airy wave theory redirect - Just the basics, table showing shallow, intermediate, deep formulae
4. Wave measurement
5. Shoaling
6. Refraction - expand definition
7. Diffraction - expand definition
8. Reflection - partial reflection, linking to clapotis, scour
9. Setup - definition or short article
10. Setdown - definition or short article
11. Runup - definition or short article
12. Wave impact
13. Wave current interaction
14. Overtopping
15. Ship waves - Wash or wake, Kelvin wave pattern, supercritical wash
16. Wave breaking - Iribarren no, other criteria, models
17. Stokes wave theory
18. Non-linear wave theories - cnoidal, solitary, limits of application
19. Wave spectrum
20. Wave modelling - operational, coastal, cfd and sph
21. Edge wave / Infragravity wave redirect

Tides

1. Tide - me = general article linking to more specific articles, classification of tides
2. Equilibrium theory of tides - forces (gravitational, centrifugal), solar, lunar, syzygy, quadrature, spring, neap
3. Dynamical theory of tides - amphidromic systems, co-range, co-tidal, kelvin wave, tidal constituents, diurnal, semi-diurnal
4. Tidal resonance - in harbours and basins
5. Tidal prediction - harmonic method, tidal constituents, specific example
6. Tidal constituents - table of principal tidal components, specific example
7. Tidal power
8. Tidal bore
9. Hydrodynamic modelling
10. Storm surge - expand definition and show examples and photos

Estuaries

1. Inlet ???
2. Estuary hydrodynamics
3. Estuary geomorphology
4. Classification of estuaries - stratified, well-mixed, salt-wedge, flood-dom, ebb-dom, bar-built, rias, fjiords
5. Estuary modelling
6. ICZM issues in estuaries

Currents

1. Tidal current
2. Wind driven current
3. Currents - email!!
4. Rip current - expand definition
5. Longshore current - expand definition

Flood risk

1. Flood risk
2. Extreme event - storm surge plus high tide, rainfall, storm waves
3. Extreme event analysis - gumbel distribution, exceedance probability, dependence and joint probability, return period
4. Risk management strategies - cost/benefit, mitigation

Sediments

1. Sediment - general article linking to more specific articles
2. Sediment classification - grain size, gravel, sand, boulder, shape, flat, round, type, cohesive, non-cohesive
3. Non-cohesive sediment - just need definition
4. Sediment transport - general article linking to non-cohesive and cohesive sediment dynamics, ST under tidal currents, ST under waves
5. Sediment budget - origins/input
6. Non-cohesive sediment dynamics - turbidity max
7. Cohesive sediment dynamics
8. Dredging - expand the existing definition
9. Sand mining
10. Aeolian transport
11. Contaminated sediments
12. Cross-shore sediment transport
13. Longshore sediment transport

Geomorphology

Geomorphology

1. Geomorphology - general article linking to more specific articles

Time and Space Scales

1. Time and space scales in geomorphology

Classification of coastal features

1. Classification of coastal features - accretional, erosional, beaches, estuaries, inlets, deltas, cliffs, mudflats, dunes, stacks, headlands, blowholes,
2. Mudflat - expand existing definition, mudflat morphology, link to saltmarsh morphology
3. Saltmarsh morphology
4. Bedform - wave generated, tidally generated
5. Beach cusp - expand definition
6. Rhythmic shoreline feature - beach cusps, rip current embayments and cuspate shorelines, crescentic bars, welded and transverse bars, large-scale capes adn erosional embayments, links to specific articles, such as beach cusp
7. Beach berm - add section on berm formation

Classification of coasts

1. Classification of coasts
2. Rocky coast ??? - cliff morphology, sediment input, shore platforms, stacks, headlands, etc.
3. Wave dominated coast - barriers, beaches, dunes, bars, macrotidal ridge and runnel
4. Tide dominated coast - estuaries
5. Fluvial dominated coast - deltas

Morphodynamics

1. Morphodynamics - feedback
2. Sea level change - indications of former sea levels, causes of sea level change, pleistocene, holocene, present, future, isostacy and eustacy?, tectonics, climate change
3. Geomorphological modelling - Bottom up process based, physics based / Top down aggregated or abstracted / Hybrid

Misc

1. Glaciology
2. ICZM issues associated with long term geomorphology
3. Quaternary geology - sand banks, case studies,
4. Profile response to storms
5. Shoreline profile - also Equilibrium profile and Parametric equilibrium models
6. Shoreline planform

Coastal engineering

1. Coastal engineering - general article linking to more specific articles and Theme 8
2. Groyne
3. Breakwater - shore-connected, detached, port and harbour, floating, link to the other articles
4. Sea wall
5. Sill
6. Soft shoreline protection solutions - expand stub, link to more specific articles
7. Beach nourishment
8. Dune management
9. Tidal flats and marshes - need better title
10. Coastal defence options - UK MAFF guidelines, do nothing, risk management, sustain, change.

Climate change

1. Climate change - extend existing definition
2. Climate change impacts - me = general article linking to more specific articles, link to articles on sea level change
3. Saltmarsh climate change dating - Roland Gehrels?

Miscellaneous

1. Environmental impact assessment - expand definition
2. UK Marine Bill
3. Scottish Marine Bill
4. UK Coast observatory network - Andrew Bradbury, Travis Mason?
5. Hydrology - Martin Borthwick, Will Blake
6. MSP redirect? - Marine Spatial Planning - Gillian Glegg?

Projects

1. WM4WH - anna?
2. PRIMARE - deborah?
3. Wavehub - deborah?
4. Flooding Consortium Projects - dominic, jose?
5. EPIRUS - qingping, adrian?
6. OVI - alison?
7. RF-PBLE - dave, dominic?
8. LEACOAST - shunqi?
9. CRF - coastal research facility, impact of breakwater - suzana ilic? shunqi?
10.  ??? - Jon Williams?