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...

Modelling rhythmic morphology in the surf zone

Coastal erosion is increasingly being prevented by the application of shoreface nourishments. Although they are applied successfully, their development and their impact on the coastal system is still difficult to predict. Especially the effects of shoreface nourishments on the already existing rhythmic bed forms in the surf zone are unknown. The...

Eb- en Vloedschaar Systemen in de Nederlandse Getijwateren - Ebb and Flood Channel Systems in the Netherlands Tidal Waters

The present paper, “Eb- en vloedschaarsystemen in de Nederlandse getijwateren” (Ebb- and floodchannel systems in the Dutch tidal waters), which was published in 1950, should be considered as Van Veen’s most important publication since his thesis. It summarizes the results of 20 years of intensive study of estuarine and tidal-basin morphodynamics...