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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Ecological Safety of Coastal and Shelf Zones of Sea</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Ecological Safety of Coastal and Shelf Zones of Sea</journal-title>
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      <issn publication-format="print">2413-5577</issn>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">20230404</article-id>
      
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          <subject>Research Article</subject>
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        <article-title>A Software Tool for Operative Data Preparation for Assessing the Structure of Longshore Sediment Flows in the Coastal Zone of the Sea</article-title>
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      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Dolotov</surname>
            <given-names>V. V.</given-names>
          </name>
          <address>
            <country country="RU">Russian Federation</country>
          </address>
          <email>dolotov_v_v@mhi-ras.ru</email>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Udovik</surname>
            <given-names>V. F.</given-names>
          </name>
          <address>
            <country country="RU">Russian Federation</country>
          </address>
          <email>udovik_uvf@mhi-ras.ru</email>
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      <aff id="aff1">
        <institution>Marine Hydrophysical Institute of RAS</institution>
        <addr-line>Sevastopol</addr-line>
        <country country="RU">Russian Federation</country>
      </aff>

      <pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2023-12-20" publication-format="electronic">
        <day>20</day>
        <month>12</month>
        <year>2023</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>2023</volume>
      <issue>4</issue>
      <fpage>46</fpage>
      <lpage>55</lpage>

      <history>
        <date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2023-06-01">
          <day>01</day>
          <month>06</month>
          <year>2023</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="rev-recd" iso-8601-date="2023-10-11">
          <day>11</day>
          <month>10</month>
          <year>2023</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="2023-09-05">
          <day>05</day>
          <month>09</month>
          <year>2023</year>
        </date>
      </history>

      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Copyright © 2023, V. V. Dolotov, V. F. Udovik</copyright-statement>
        <copyright-year>2023</copyright-year>
        <copyright-holder>V. V. Dolotov, V. F. Udovik</copyright-holder>
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          <ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/</ali:license_ref>
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      <self-uri xlink:href="https://ecological-safety.ru/en/repository/issues/2023/04/04/" xlink:title="Page of article">https://ecological-safety.ru/en/repository/issues/2023/04/04/</self-uri>

      <abstract>
        <p>The paper describes the geoinformation software developed for automated formation of an array of input parameters necessary to assess the direction and relative intensity of alongshore sediment flows using the wind energy method. This method establishes a direct relationship between the energy of wind action on the water surface and the intensity of sediment movement. The method can be applied to calculations for shallow and relatively straight coastal sections with sand and gravel deposits. As input parameters, the software uses information about both the wind direction and speed, as well as the length of the wave acceleration along the sectors of different directions and the average depth along the acceleration rays. These parameters are individual for each segment of the approximation of the study coast section. The possibility of using wind data as the only parameter characterizing the driving force provides an advantage when using the method to conduct preliminary and reconnaissance assessments of the structure and main parameters of sediment movement in the areas that are poorly studied or not covered with disturbance data. The basics of the method were developed in the absence of computer technology. Therefore, the considerable complexity of preparing regional data limited the possibility to detail the coastline when approximating it by a piecewise linear function. The same limitation was imposed on the number of sectors in the wind direction when calculating the energy interpreted as a sediment movement force. The development and availability of modern geoinformation technologies in terms of creating new digital models of the bottom relief or using existing ones predetermined that the authors develop a modified version of the calculation scheme of the wind energy method and a specialized software tool to automate the preparation stage of a set of regional input parameters. The software allows to significantly accelerate preparation of digital data arrays to clarify the structure of sediment flows for extended sections of the coastal zone of Western Crimea.</p>
      </abstract>

      <kwd-group>
        <kwd>longshore sediment flows</kwd>
        <kwd>wind energy method</kwd>
        <kwd>wind-wave regime</kwd>
        <kwd>GIS</kwd>
        <kwd>lithodynamics processes</kwd>
        <kwd>coastal zone</kwd>
        <kwd>automation of calculations</kwd>
      </kwd-group>

      <funding-group>
        <funding-statement>The work was performed under state assignment of MHI RAS on topics no. 0827-2020-0004 "Coastal research".</funding-statement>
      </funding-group>

      <author-notes>
        <p><bold>About the authors:</bold></p>
        <p><bold>Vyacheslav V. Dolotov</bold>, Senior Research Associate, Marine Hydrophysical Institute of RAS (2 Kapitanskaya St., Sevastopol, 299011, Russian Federation), PhD (Chem.), <bold>ORCID: 0000-0002-1485-2883</bold>, <bold>ResearcherID: E-5570-2016</bold>, <email>dolotov_v_v@mhi-ras.ru</email></p>
        <p><bold>Vladimir F. Udovik</bold>, Junior Research Associate, Marine Hydrophysical Institute of RAS (2 Kapitanskaya St., Sevastopol, 299011, Russian Federation), <bold>ORCID: 0000-0002-3832-2537</bold>, <bold>ResearcherID: AAV-7570-2020</bold>, <email>udovik_uvf@mhi-ras.ru</email></p>
        <p><bold>Contribution of the authors:</bold></p>
        <p><bold>Vyacheslav V. Dolotov</bold> – the algorithm and software tool development, preparation of the article text and illustrations</p>
        <p><bold>Vladimir F. Udovik</bold> – problem statement, data processing and analysis, preparation of the article text</p>
        <p><italic>All the authors have read and approved the final manuscript.</italic></p>
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