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Zheng, Jiechen (author)Estuarine shoals are valuable areas with functions of nature, safety and navigation. It is of utmost importance to understand their underlying physical processes and long-term evolution to achieve protection. The first aim of this report is to determine the impact of wind-waves on long-term morphological development of estuarine shoals. The...master thesis 2019
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Taaban, Chahid (author)Coastal bays in the Caribbean accommodate different marine ecosystems, including seagrass meadows and coral reefs, which provide important ecosystem services. However, these marine ecosystems are endangered. Seagrass ecosystems have a key role in coastal bays, but despite their alarming rates of loss, they receive little attention compared to...master thesis 2019
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Wellen, Fleur (author), Winkel, Sander (author), Vrinds, Thijs (author), van der Voort, Tjalie (author)In Chile, the Biobío river separates the cities of Concepción and San Pedro de la Paz. Bridges crossing the Biobío river ensure a fast and dependable connection, which contributes to the transport options in the region. With the Biobío region being the second largest contributor to the country's GDP, an unreliable transport network is highly...student report 2019
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Rozendaal, Marco (author)Tidal inlet systems are often highly valuable and sometimes even unique ecosystems. However, field measurements show that tidal inlet systems are sensitive to changing exogenous conditions, such as rising sea levels. This thesis aims to investigate to what extent the adjacent sea influences the stability and equilibrium state of the tidal inlet....master thesis 2019
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Lambert, Ingrid (author)Accelerated sea level rise (SLR) is predicted to have multiple adverse impacts on the coastal zone, aggravating phenomena such as coastal erosion on sandy coasts. For climate change adaptation planning and informing policy, morphodynamic changes occurring at coastlines are becoming increasingly important. In this study, a calibrated Delft3D...master thesis 2019
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Gradussen, Bas (author)River discharge is an essential parameter in morphodynamic modelling. It proves to be highly variable in both time and space. In this thesis the impact of the schematisation of time-dependent discharge series on morphodynamic change is studied. The impact is governed by several factors such as the long-term discharge statistics, and both short-...master thesis 2019
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Kosters, Anna (author)Like many rivers around the world, the Loire river in France has a history of human interventions in order to facilitate navigation and port development. Next to affecting bed levels directly, the heavy modification of the river-estuary has induced significant changes in the hydrodynamic and morphodynamic behaviour of the Loire. As a result, the...master thesis 2019
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Lange, Lea (author)Bathymetry strongly affects nearshore hydrodynamics that drive sediment transport. However, recent bed level information is not always available, especially not simultaneously resolved in space and time. Time series of radar backscatter images can be used to retrieve bed levels in the intertidal area with the so-called Temporal Waterline...master thesis 2019
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Meerman, C.J. (author), Rottschäffer, Vivi (author), Schuttelaars, H.M. (author)The existence of cross-sectionally averaged morphodynamic equilibria of tidal inlets is investigated, using a cross-sectionally averaged model, and their sensitivity to variations of geometry, deposition parameter, frictional effects and advective sediment transport is analysed. Different geometries, from exponentially converging to...journal article 2019
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Cohn, Nicholas (author), Hoonhout, B.M. (author), Goldstein, Evan B. (author), de Vries, S. (author), Moore, Laura J. (author), Vinent, Orencio Durán (author), Ruggiero, Peter (author)Coastal landscape change represents aggregated sediment transport gradients from spatially and temporally variable marine and aeolian forces. Numerous tools exist that independently simulate subaqueous and subaerial coastal profile change in response to these physical forces on a range of time scales. In this capacity, coastal foredunes have...journal article 2019
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Arkesteijn, L. (author), Blom, A. (author), Czapiga, Matthew J. (author), Chavarrias Borras, V. (author), Labeur, R.J. (author)An engineered alluvial river (i.e., a fixed-width channel) has constrained planform but is free to adjust channel slope and bed surface texture. These features are subject to controls: the hydrograph, sediment flux, and downstream base level. If the controls are sustained (or change slowly relative to the timescale of channel response), the...journal article 2019
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Elmilady, H.M.S.M.A. (author), van der Wegen, M. (author), Roelvink, D. (author), Jaffe, B. E. (author)Anticipated sea level rise (SLR) threatens intertidal areas and associated ecosystems in estuaries worldwide. There is a need to develop validated modeling tools to assess the impact of SLR on estuarine morphodynamics. This study explores the morphological impact of SLR on a channel-shoal system in San Pablo Bay, a subembayment of San...journal article 2019
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van der Wegen, M. (author), Roelvink, D. (author), Jaffe, B. E. (author)Intertidal mudflats are morphodynamic features present in many estuaries worldwide. Often located between vegetated shores and deep channels they comprise valuable ecosystems and serve to protect the hinterland by attenuating waves. Although mudflats are persistently present on yearly to decadal time scales, little is known on their...journal article 2019
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Cordier, F. (author), Tassi, P. (author), Claude, N. (author), Crosato, A. (author), Rodrigues, S. (author), Pham Van Bang, D. (author)Rivers typically present heterogeneous bed material, but the effects of sediment nonuniformity on river bar characteristics are still unclear. This work investigates the impact of sediment size heterogeneity on alternate bars with a morphodynamic numerical model. The model is first used to reproduce a laboratory experiment showing alternate...journal article 2019
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Morphodynamic acceleration techniques for multi-timescale predictions of complex sandy interventionsLuijendijk, Arjen (author), de Schipper, M.A. (author), Ranasinghe, Roshanka (author)Thirty one percent (31%) of the world's coastline consists of sandy beaches and dunes that form a natural defense protecting the hinterland from flooding. A common measure to mitigate erosion along sandy beaches is the implementation of sand nourishments. The design and acceptance of such a mitigating measure require information on the expected...journal article 2019
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Performance evaluation of wave input reduction techniques for modeling inter-annual sandbar dynamicsde Queiroz, Bruna (author), Scheel, F. (author), Caires, Sofia (author), Walstra, D.J.R. (author), Olij, Derrick (author), Yoo, Jeseon (author), Reniers, A.J.H.M. (author), de Boer, W.P. (author)In process-based numerical models, reducing the amount of input parameters, known as input reduction (IR), is often required to reduce the computational effort of these models and to enable long-term, ensemble predictions. Currently, a comprehensive performance assessment of IR-methods is lacking, which hampers guidance on selecting suitable...journal article 2019
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Elias, Edwin P.L. (author), van der Spek, A.J.F. (author), Pearson, S.G. (author), Cleveringa, Jelmer (author)Ameland inlet is centrally located in the chain of West Frisian Islands (the Netherlands). A globally unique dataset of detailed bathymetric charts starting in the early 19th century, and high-resolution digital data since 1986 allows for detailed investigations of the ebb-tidal delta morphodynamics and sediment bypassing over a wide range of...journal article 2019
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Tao, Jianfeng (author), Wang, Zhengbing (author), Zhou, Zeng (author), Xu, Fan (author), Zhang, Changkuan (author), Stive, M.J.F. (author)The radial sand ridges (denoted as “RSRs” hereafter) in the Southern Yellow Sea, China, are morphologically striking because of the remarkable size and radial planar orientation, standing out as a unique coastal geomorphology among the worldwide sand ridge systems. The formation of this giant fan‐shaped geomorphic feature requires delicate...journal article 2019
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Vargas-Luna, Andrés (author), Duro, G. (author), Crosato, A. (author), Uijttewaal, W.S.J. (author)While the scientific community has long recognized that alluvial rivers are the product of interactions between flowing water and bed material transport, it is increasingly evident that vegetation mediates these interactions and influences the stream channel characteristics. In a novel set of mobile bed laboratory experiments with variable...journal article 2019
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Brand, Evelien (author), De Sloover, Lars (author), De Wulf, Alain (author), Montreuil, Anne Lise (author), Vos, S.E. (author), Chen, Margaret (author)Sediment transport is a key element in intertidal beach morphodynamics, but measurements of sediment transport are often unreliable. The aim of this study is to quantify and investigate cross-shore sediment transport and the resulting topographic changes for a tide-dominated, sandy beach. Two fortnight-long field experiments were carried out...journal article 2019