An explanatory model for the burial of fines in the sandy seabed of the southern North Sea

The amount of suspended fines in the southern North Sea strongly depends on their exchange with the sandy seabed. This exchange is governed by resuspension of fines during storms, followed by burial in the week thereafter. Despite its importance for fine sediment dynamics, the burial of fines into a sandy seabed is currently not well...

How human activities affect the fine sediment distribution in the Dutch Coastal Zone seabed

The fine sediment distribution in the seabed is an important indicator for the ecological functioning of shallow coastal seas. In this paper, we investigate the processes and conditions that determine the fine sediment distribution in the Dutch coastal zone surficial seabed, while also assessing the response of the system to human...

Feedbacks between Fine-Grained Sediment Deposits and Bedforms in a Predominantly Sandy Seabed: Field Observations from the Southern North Sea

Response of SPM concentrations to storms in the North Sea: Investigating the water-bed exchange of fine sediments

Shallow coastal seas are subject to an increasing pressure by offshore operations. Further to a direct influence these operations impose on benthic and pelagic organisms, an indirect influence is caused by changes in sediment dynamics and morphodynamics. Temporal variations in SPM have a large effect on the timing and rate of primary production,...

Fine sediment dynamics in a shallow lake and implication for design of hydraulic works

Lake Markermeer is a large (680 km2), shallow body of water in the middle of the Netherlands, with a mean water depth of 3.6 m. One of the major problems in the lake is its decreasing ecological value which is, among other reasons, caused by a gradual increase of suspended sediment concentration and associated increase of light attenuation in...