The Extended North Sea Storm Atlas: Improving and extending a new statistical approach for rapid flood forecasting in coastal areas

In this thesis, the improvement and extension of the North Sea Storm Atlas is studied. The North Sea Storm Atlas is a new statistical approach for rapid flood forecasting in coastal areas. The method is based on a large database of potential weather scenarios. A detailed hydrodynamic numerical model (WAQUA-in-Simona/DCSM98) has been used to...

Project Veracruz: An assessment for the eroding beach south of Veracruz

Due to frequently occurring storms, like hurricanes and cold fronts, the coasts around the Mexican port city Veracruz suffer from erosion. This is most severe at the beaches of Boca del Rio just south of the city of Veracruz. Here, small beaches can be found between large groynes. These groynes block the southward littoral drift significantly...

Landaanwinning voor de kust van Delfland

Studie naar de effecten van een landaanwinning voor de kust van Delfland op de kustmorfologie. Namen voor deze plannen zijn "plan Waterman", plan "kustlokatie voor Delfland", "plan Nieuwduinen", "plan westduinen" en plan "dorp in zee".