A science gateway for CSHORE-VEG

<jats:p>This Coastal and Hydraulics Engineering Technical Note (CHETN) develops a science gateway for coastal scientists and engineers to evaluate the capacity of coastal and marine wetlands in wave-height reduction using a one-dimensional cross-shore profile model, the CSHORE-VEG (Cross-Shore–Vegetation) model (Chen et al. 2025). This gateway comprises a front-end (i.e., web-based graphical user interface [GUI]) and a backend (i.e., models for wave action and vegetation, linkage between CSHORE and vegetation model, postprocessing for vegetation breakage evaluation, etc.). The GUI, built upon the Jupyter Notebook, streamlines the workflow of model configuration, execution, and output visualization, so that users can quickly make use of CSHORE-VEG, regardless of their prior knowledge of the model. Two examples with laboratory and field wave conditions are provided in this CHETN to guide users through the diverse functionality of this gateway.</jats:p>