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Coastline configuration disrupts large-scale climatic forcing, leading to divergent temporal trends in wave exposure

  • Posted by Andy
  • March 21, 2008

Andrew J. Davies and Mark P. Johnson
Published in Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science (2006)
Both climate change and the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) may influence coastal systems by altering wave exposure. The effects of such climatic forcing are often coherent over relatively large geographic areas. Temporal trends in wave exposure at any particular shore are, however, [...]