J. Patrick Megonigal Ben Bond-Lamberty Vanessa Bailey David Butman Elizabeth Canuel Heida Diefenderfer Neil K. Ganju Miguel Goni Emily B. Graham Charles Hopkinson Tarang Khangaonkar Adam Langley Nate McDowell Allison Myers-Pigg Rebecca Neumann Christopher Osburn Rene Price Joel Rowland Aditi Sengupta Marc Simard Peter E. Thornton Maria Tzortziou Rodrigo Vargas Pamela Weisenhorn Lisamarie Windham-Myers Nicholas Ward 2020 Along coastal interfaces, components of the Earth system interact to regulate ecosystem functions and Earth’s climate. Between the land and ocean, diverse coastal ecosystem types transform, store, and transport material. A dynamic two-way exchange of energy and matter is driven by hydrological and marine processes such as river and groundwater discharge, tides, waves, and storms. Global models lack representation of coastal processes and related feedbacks on Earth’s climate and ecosystems, impeding their predictions of coastal and global response to change. We recommend leveraging existing monitoring networks and regional models to develop and validate global models that include the coastal interface. application/pdf 10.1038/s41467-020-16236-2 en Nature Representing the function and sensitivity of coastal interfaces in Earth system models article