Synthesis of SBW belastingen

The Dutch Water Act (in Dutch: 'Waterwet 2009') stipulates that water boards must assess the quality of their primary water defences every six years. The Statutory Safety Assessment Suite (in Dutch: 'Wettelijk Toetsinstrumentarium', or shortly WTI) prescribes the rules to be applied. The WTI mainly comprises of the Safety Test Regulations (VTV),...

On the determination of the temporal and spatial evolution of extreme events

The current computations of the Hydraulic Boundary Conditions rely mostly on the distribution of the basic variables at the peak of the storms. As a means of improving the quality of the numerical modelling with a view towards the 2017 assessment, it is envisaged that the numerical models (e.g. the wave model) will in the future use time and...