CoastalME
| Developer(s) | Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University, United Kingdom; CoastalME User Group Association (from July 2017) |
|---|---|
| Initial release | June 2017.[1] |
| Stable release | 1.0.0
/ 17 December 2020[2] |
| Written in | C++ |
| Engine | |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Geographic information system |
| License | GNU General Public License |
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Coastal Modelling Environment (CoastalME) is a computer program to simulate decade and longer coastal morphological changes. It is free and open-source software, developed originally by a small team at the Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University, United Kingdom, [3] and is now being maintained and extended by an international developer community [4][5]
CoastalME is intended to give scientists and coastal engineers an effective but easily learnable platform for implementing geoscientific methods. This is achieved by the application programming interface (API). CoastalME has a fast-growing set of geoscientific methods, bundled in exchangeable module libraries.
Coastal morphology change is simulated as dynamically linked line and raster objects. The hierarchy of panels illustrates how a real coastal morphology is conceptualized as shoreline, shoreface profiles and estuary elements. All elements can share sediment among them. The shoreface comprises both consolidated and non-consolidated material that forms the cliff, shore platform and beach respectively. At every time step the shoreline is delineated at the intersection of the Sea Level and the ground elevation. Shore face profiles are delineated perpendicular to the shoreline. The Sea Level and wave energy constrain the proportion of shoreface profiles that are morphologically active at each time step. Eroded sediment from the consolidated profile is added to the drift material to advance the shoreline or lost as suspended sediment. Gradients of the littoral drift further control the advance and retreat of the beach profile and the amount of sediment shared with nearby sections of the shoreline.
References
- ↑ "GitHub / CoastalME". GitHub. 8 February 2022. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
- ↑ "GitHub / CoastalME_Testing". GitHub. 4 October 2021. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
- ↑ Payo, Andrés; Favis-Mortlock, David; Dickson, Mark; Hall, Jim W.; Hurst, Martin D.; Walkden, Mike J. A.; Townend, Ian; Ives, Matthew C.; Nicholls, Robert J.; Ellis, Michael A. (2017-07-17). "Coastal Modelling Environment version 1.0: a framework for integrating landform-specific component models in order to simulate decadal to centennial morphological changes on complex coasts". Geoscientific Model Development. 10 (7): 2715–2740. Bibcode:2017GMD....10.2715P. doi:10.5194/gmd-10-2715-2017. ISSN 1991-959X.
- ↑ Payo, Andres; Walkden, Mike; Ellis, Michael A.; Barkwith, Andrew; Favis-Mortlock, David; Kessler, Holger; Wood, Benjamin; Burke, Helen; Lee, Jonathan (2018-10-18). "A Quantitative Assessment of the Annual Contribution of Platform Downwearing to Beach Sediment Budget: Happisburgh, England, UK". Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 6 (4): 113. doi:10.3390/jmse6040113. ISSN 2077-1312.
- ↑ Payo, Andres; French, Jon R.; Sutherland, James; A. Ellis, Michael; Walkden, Michael (2020-04-29). "Communicating Simulation Outputs of Mesoscale Coastal Evolution to Specialist and Non-Specialist Audiences". Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 8 (4): 235. doi:10.3390/jmse8040235. ISSN 2077-1312.
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