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Is There a Bulldozer in your Model?
Author(s) -
Lazarus Eli D.,
Goldstein Evan B.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of geophysical research: earth surface
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2169-9011
pISSN - 2169-9003
DOI - 10.1029/2018jf004957
Subject(s) - beach morphodynamics , sediment transport , storm , geology , phenomenon , psychological intervention , sediment , oceanography , environmental science , geomorphology , psychology , epistemology , philosophy , psychiatry
Deliberate, real‐time human interventions into geomorphic processes are a phenomenon that no off‐the‐shelf numerical model of morphodynamics is built to capture. We suggest that active, responsive human processes that affect sediment transport during major storm events be included in evolving efforts to model geomorphic change.