Modelling the future of coastal soft cliffs underchanging climate

NERC-ENVISIONDoctoralTrainingPartnership内的一个名为“在变化的气候下模拟沿海软岩的未来”的项目，现邀请您申请博士学位。沿海软崖是世界范围内沿海环境的极其重要的组成部分。他们的撤退是一个威胁沿海社区的全球性问题。气候变化会影响软悬崖的后退；然而，需要进行研究来理解和量化这种影响。为了做到这一点，我们还必须了解软岩悬崖的物理驱动因素并对其进行建模。这个博士项目将开发数值方法来描述软岩悬崖的未来行为，并分析两个具有全球代表性的悬崖/海滩系统的案例研究：英国哈比斯堡。和美国长岛的蒙托克角海岸。该项目将从分析现有数据开始，结合新的实地工作，以澄清和模拟导致悬崖失败的物理过程，这些过程仍然知之甚少。此后，重点将放在设计一种创新技术来模拟这些系统的长期行为。最后，气候变化对这两种情况下悬崖后退的影响将在气专委的高端排放情景下进行建模。

Applications are invited for a PhD studentship within the NERC-ENVISIONDoctoralTrainingPartnership with a project entitled: "Modelling the future of coastal soft cliffs under changing climate". Coastal soft cliffs are extremely important components of coastal environments worldwide. Their retreat is a global problem that threatens coastal communities. Climate change affects soft cliffsretreat; however,research is needed to understand and quantify this effect. To do so, we also must understand and model physical thedrivers offailure of soft cliffs.This PhD project will develop numerical methods to describe the future behaviour of soft cliffs and analysetwo case studies representative of cliff/beach systems worldwide: the Happisburgh (U.K.) and Montauk Point, Long Island(USA) coasts. The project will start by analysing existing data, integrated with new field work,to clarify and model the physical processes driving cliff failure that are still poorly understood. Thereafter, the focus will be on devising an innovative technique to model the long-term behaviour of these systems. Finally, the effect of climate change on cliff retreat in the two casestudieswill be modelled, under high-end emission scenarios of the IPCC.