UK estuarine environments are regulated by inter-acting physical processes, including tidal,
wave, surge, river discharge and sediment supply. They regulate the fluxes of nutrients …

Estuaries and tidal embayments are partly enclosed coastal bodies of water with a free
connection to the open sea at their tidal inlet and with minimal (tidal embayments) or …

The world's coastlines represent a myriad of dynamic and constantly changing
environments. Heavily settled and intensely used areas, they are of enormous importance to …

As defined in this chapter, an estuary forms during a shoreline transgression and then fills
during a progradational phase that is transitional to a delta. The spatial distribution of …

Coastal inundation is affected not only by rising mean sea level but also by changing tides.
A numerical model is developed to investigate how sea level rise and coastline changes …

Over the past few decades, there has been large-scale land reclamation in Jiaozhou Bay,
which inevitably has affected the hydrodynamics and sediment transport in the bay, and thus …

Numerous research efforts have been devoted to understanding estuarine morphodynamics
under tidal forcing. However, the impact of river discharge on estuarine morphodynamics is …

Tidal asymmetry in deltas is caused by both the intrinsic asymmetry, resulting from the
combination of astronomical tides, and by nonlinear tidal interactions that occur in shallow …

Flood/ebb tidal dominance plays a pivotal role in estuarine sediment transport. The Dyfi
Estuary, mid-Wales, UK, is used as a case study, together with an idealized trumpet-shaped …

Alluvial river estuaries consist largely of sand but are typically flanked by mudflats and salt
marshes. The analogy with meandering rivers that are kept narrower than braided rivers by …