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A numerical model detailing the functioning and emergent behaviour of an eroding coastal system is described. Model output from a 50-km study region centred on the soft-rock shore of northeast Norfolk was verified through comparison with cliff recession rates that were extracted from historical maps spanning more than a century. Predictions were then made for the period 2000 to 2100 under combined climatic change and management scenarios. For the scenarios evaluated, the model was relatively insensitive to increases in offshore wave height and moderately sensitive to changes in wave direction, but the most important effects were associated with accelerated sea-level rise (SLR). In contrast to predictions made using a modified version of the Bruun rule, the systems model predicted rather complex responses to SLR. For instance, on some sectors of coast, whereas the Bruun rule predicted accelerated recession under SLR, the systems model actually predicted progradation owing to the delivery of sediment from eroding coasts up-drift. By contrast, on coasts where beaches are underlain by shore platforms, both the Bruun-rule and the systems model predicted accelerated recession rates. However, explicit consideration of the interaction between beach and shore platform within the systems model indicates that these coasts have a broader range of responses and lower overall vulnerability to SLR than predicted by the Bruun-rule.
Author(s): Dickson ME, Walkden MJA, Hall JW
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Climatic Change
Year: 2007
Volume: 84
Issue: 2
Pages: 141-166
Print publication date: 20/03/2007
ISSN (print): 0165-0009
ISSN (electronic): 1573-1480
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10584-006-9200-9
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-006-9200-9
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