Print Email Facebook Twitter Assessment of the effects of the Zuider Sea closure on the hydrodynamics of the Wadden Sea inlets Title Assessment of the effects of the Zuider Sea closure on the hydrodynamics of the Wadden Sea inlets Author Vroom, J. Elias, E. Lescinski, J. Wang, Z.B. Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Hydraulic Engineering Date 2012-07-01 Abstract Large hydrodynamic and morphodynamic changes have taken place in the western Dutch Wadden Sea due to the closure of the Zuider Sea in the early 1930s. Hydrodynamic simulations for three situations, viz. just before the closure, just after the closure and at present, have been carried out in order to investigate the hydrodynamic changes since the closure and to improve our understanding of the observed morphodynamic changes. The model results show a large increase in tidal range after the closure of the Zuider Sea. This increase continued to grow after the closure due to bathymetric change and sea level rise. The morphodynamic analysis focuses on the changed behavior of the ebb-tidal deltas of the Texel Inlet and the Vlie Inlet. Both ebb-tidal deltas have undergone a re-orientation in up drift direction. Two possible explanations based on the literature for this change are discussed with the help of the hydrodynamic simulations. Subject Wadden SeaZuider SeaDelft3D modelingtidal basinsbasin area reductiontidal asymmetry To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8b88ca00-045c-4541-b2d1-11605f76606c Publisher Coastal Engineering Research Council ISSN 2156-1028 Source ICCE 2012: Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Coastal Engineering, Santander, Spain, 1-6 July 2012 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2012 The Author(s)Creative Commons Files PDF 291152.pdf 1.7 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:8b88ca00-045c-4541-b2d1-11605f76606c/datastream/OBJ/view