Confidence in Coastal Forecasts

This thesis answers the question "How can we show and improve our confidence in coastal forecasts?", by providing four examples of common coastal forecasts. The first example shows how to improve the estimate of the one in ten thousand year storm-surge level. The three dimensional reconstruction, based on paintings, shows that structural erosion...

Coastal Engineering. Volume I

Natural system, coastal dynamics, climatology, oceanography, morphology. Coastal formations, Coast and culture, The Netherlands.

Coastal Engineering

Introduction, waves, sediment transport, littoral transport, lonshore sediment transport, onshore-offshore sediment transport, coastal changes, dune erosion and storm surges, sedimentation in channels and trenches, coastal engineering in practice.