Tidally- and Wind-Driven Horizontal Flow Patterns on Intertidal Flats in the Wadden Sea: An Assessment using Subgrid Modeling Technique

The Wadden Sea is of great ecological importance. Key elements in the Wadden Sea are the extensive intertidal flats. These contain vast amounts of life, serve as feeding grounds for millions of birds, and provide ecosystem services such as coastal protection. It follows that it is important to be able to understand and predict how these vital...

Room for the Wadden Sea: Analysis of a building with nature approach to strengthen the foreshore at Koehool-Lauwersmeer

A significant part of the Netherlands lies below sea level. The Dutch have protected their land against seawater since the 10th century. Nowadays, the Netherlands is protected by 3800 km of primary flood defences. Since the Flood Defences Act was included in the Dutch law in 1996, all flood defences are tested against the national safety...

Morphological modelling of tidal inlets in the Wadden Sea

The purpose of this study is to develop a suitable model to predict morphological changes in tidal inlets. Several morphological models already exist, but they all have their limitations. In this study is chosen for the morphological program ESTMORF. Until this moment the model ESTMORF is only verified for the channel cross-sectional areas and...