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Shoreline data at La Jolla Shores, used in the CoSMoS COAST model

By Communications and Publishing March 2017 (approx.)
satellite image of shoreline showing many colored lines parallel to the beach
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An example of the shoreline data for La Jolla Shores, used in the CoSMoS COAST model. The many squiggly colored lines indicate the changing location of the shoreline through time. [Basemaps from Google Earth]

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Public Domain.

Source
Figure 6 from the paper, "A model integrating longshore and cross-shore processes for predicting long-term shoreline response to climate change," published in the Journal of Geophysical Research.