1 Coastal and Estuaries White Paper . Part 2 : Coastal seas and shelf processes March 17 , 2015

A separate white paper (“Coastal and Estuaries White Paper. Part 1 : Estuaries and nearshore processes) describes SWOT applications in estuaries and near-shore regions (where dynamics are strongly influenced by breaking waves). To avoid confusion, in this white paper we use the terms "shelf oceanography", "shelf circulation", and "shelf processes" to describe the ocean in the region within several tens to hundreds of kilometers from shore, often coinciding with the extent of a continental shelf. There are also regions, such as the European Shelf Sea, where the shelf extends over even larger regions between land masses.

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