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Loen, S.S. (author)Securing fresh water supply on the Dutch Caribbean islands, former colonial overseas territories of The Netherlands from the 17th century, always has been, and still is, a challenge. Between 1904 and 1915 the cartographers Werbata and Jonckheer drew the first topographical maps of the islands. Detailed data was needed for the (re-)development of...conference paper 2021
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Zhang, Min (author), Dai, Zhijun (author), Bouma, T.J. (author), Bricker, J.D. (author), Townend, Ian (author), Wen, Jiahong (author), Zhao, Tongtiegang (author), Cai, Huayang (author)A better understanding of how tidal-flat reclamation changes the flood hazard is critical for climate-proofing coastal flood defense design of heavily urbanized areas. Since the 1950s, large-scale reclamation has been performed along the Shanghai coast, China, to fulfill the land demands of city expansion. We now show that the loss of tidal...journal article 2021
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Paprotny, D. (author), Vousdoukas, Michalis I. (author), Morales Napoles, O. (author), Jonkman, Sebastiaan N. (author), Feyen, Luc (author)The interaction between storm surges and inland run-off has been gaining increasing attention recently, as they have the potential to result in compound floods. In Europe, several flood events of this type have been recorded in the past century in Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy and UK. First projections of compound flood hazard under climate...journal article 2020
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Chaivutitorn, Tanaporn (author), Tanasakcharoen, Thawalrat (author), Leelawat, Natt (author), Tang, Jing (author), Caro, Carl Vincent C. (author), Lagmay, Alfredo Mahar Francisco A. (author), Suppasri, Anawat (author), Bricker, J.D. (author), Roeber, Volker (author), Yi, Carine J. (author), Imamura, Fumihiko (author)In November 2013, Super Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) hit the Philippines. It caused heavy loss of lives and extensive damages to buildings and infrastructure. When collapsed buildings are focused on, it is inter-esting to find that these buildings did not collapse for the same reasons after the landfall of the typhoon and storm surge. The...journal article 2020
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Laverde Barajas, M.A. (author), Corzo, Gerald A. (author), Poortinga, Ate (author), Chishtie, Farrukh (author), Meechaiya, Chinaporn (author), Jayasinghe, Susantha (author), Towashiraporn, Peeranan (author), Uijlenhoet, R. (author), Solomatine, D.P. (author)Advances in near real-time rainstorm prediction using remote sensing have offered important opportunities for effective disaster management. However, this information is subject to several sources of systematic errors that need to be corrected. Temporal and spatial characteristics of both satellite and in-situ data can be combined to enhance...journal article 2020
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Ge, Jianzhong (author), Chen, Changsheng (author), Wang, Zhengbing (author), Ke, Keteng (author), Yi, Jinxu (author), Ding, Ping Xing (author)Fluid mud (FM) is a unique sedimentary feature in high-turbidity estuaries, where it can make a rapid contribution to morphodynamics. Insufficient field measurements and fixed-point monitoring lead to deficient understandings of the formation, transport, and breakdown of the FM under extreme weather conditions. A field survey was conducted in...journal article 2020
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Seagrass coastal protection services reduced by invasive species expansion and megaherbivore grazingJames, Rebecca K. (author), Christianen, Marjolijn J.A. (author), van Katwijk, Marieke M. (author), de Smit, Jaco C. (author), Bakker, Elisabeth S. (author), Herman, P.M.J. (author), Bouma, T.J. (author)Seagrasses provide an important ecosystem service by creating a stable erosion-resistant seabed that contributes to effective coastal protection. Variable morphologies and life-history strategies, however, are likely to impact the sediment stabilization capacity of different seagrass species. We question how opportunistic invasive species and...journal article 2020
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Dan, Sebastian (author), Altomare, Corrado (author), Suzuki, T. (author), Spiesschaert, Tim (author), Verwaest, Toon (author)Physical model experiments were conducted in a wave tank at Flanders Hydraulics Research, Antwerp, Belgium, to characterize the wave overtopping and impact force on vertical quay walls and sloping sea dike (1:2.5) under very oblique wave attack (angle between 45° and 80°). This study was triggered by the scarce scientific literature on the...journal article 2020
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Laverde Barajas, M.A. (author), Corzo Perez, G. A. (author), Chishtie, F. (author), Poortinga, A. (author), Uijlenhoet, R. (author), Solomatine, D.P. (author)A spatiotemporal object-based rainfall analysis method is used to evaluate the hydrological response of two systematic satellite error sources for storm estimation in the Capivari catchment, Brazil. This method is called Spatiotemporal Contiguous Object-based Rainfall Analysis (ST-CORA) specifically evaluates the error structure of satellite...journal article 2020
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Zou, P. (author), Bricker, J.D. (author), Uijttewaal, W.S.J. (author)A submerged floating tunnel (SFT) is a promising alternative to conventional bridges and tunnels, and can be potentially built in the Qiongzhou Strait in China. However, this area is under the threat of disasters including mega tsunamis and severe storm surges. To evaluate the hydrodynamic loads of the SFT in this hazardous zone subject to...journal article 2020
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Jin, J. (author)Severe dust storms present great threats to the environment, property and human health over the areas in the downwind of arid regions. Several dynamical dust models have been developed to predict the dust concentrations in the atmosphere. Currently, the accuracy of these models is limited mainly due to the imperfect modeling of dust emissions....doctoral thesis 2019
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Verhagen, H.J. (author)In this paper, protection options for a high-value, industrial area along the coast of West Bengal (India) are investigated. The options are designed to protect against cyclone surges with a probability of 1/100 per year. Two alternatives are compared, a classical solution of a dike with a revetment and a solution with a mangrove belt in...journal article 2019
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Jin, J. (author), Segers, Arjo (author), Heemink, A.W. (author), Yoshida, Mayumi (author), Han, Wei (author), Lin, H.X. (author)Aerosol optical depths (AODs) from the new Himawari-8 satellite instrument have been assimilated in a dust simulation model over East Asia. This advanced geostationary instrument is capable of monitoring the East Asian dust storms which usually have great spatial and temporal variability. The quality of the data has been verified through a...journal article 2019
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Krishnan, S. (author), Lin, Jiabiao (author), Simanjuntak, Johannes (author), Hooimeijer, F.L. (author), Bricker, J.D. (author), Daniël, Maäyan (author), Yoshida, Y. (author)Engineering for flood resilience of dense coastal regions often neglects the resultant impact on urban design quality. Vital subsurface infrastructure such as hydraulic systems, water networks, civil construction, transport, energy supply and soil systems are especially important in shaping the urban environment and integrating resilience....journal article 2019
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Baron-Hyppolite, C.G. (author), Lashley, Christopher H. (author), Garzon, Juan (author), Miesse, Tyler (author), Bricker, J.D. (author)Assessing the accuracy of nearshore numerical models—such as SWAN—is important to ensure their effectiveness in representing physical processes and predicting flood hazards. In particular, for application to coastal wetlands, it is important that the model accurately represents wave attenuation by vegetation. In SWAN, vegetation might be...journal article 2018
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Karimov, Jeyhun (author), Rabl, Tilmann (author), Katsifodimos, A (author), Samarev, Roman (author), Heiskanen, Henri (author), Markl, Volker (author)The need for scalable and efficient stream analysis has led to the development of many open-source streaming data processing systems (SDPSs) with highly diverging capabilities and performance characteristics. While first initiatives try to compare the systems for simple workloads, there is a clear gap of detailed analyses of the systems'...conference paper 2018
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Couasnon, A.A.O. (author), Sebastian, Antonia (author), Morales Napoles, O. (author)Traditional flood hazard analyses often rely on univariate probability distributions; however, in many coastal catchments, flooding is the result of complex hydrodynamic interactions between multiple drivers. For example, synoptic meteorological conditions can produce considerable rainfall-runoff, while also generating wind-driven elevated sea...journal article 2018
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Reef, Koen RG (author), Lipari, Giordano (author), Roos, Pieter C. (author), Hulscher, Suzanne J.M.H. (author)We present an idealized network model for storm surges in the Wadden Sea, specifically including a time-dependent wind forcing (wind speed and direction). This extends the classical work by H.A. Lorentz who only considered the equilibrium response to a steady wind forcing. The solutions obtained in the frequency domain for the linearized shallow...journal article 2018
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Terefenko, Paweł (author), Giza, Andrzej (author), Paprotny, D. (author), Kubicki, Adam (author), Winowski, Marcin (author)In Miȩdzyzdroje, a coastal town in Poland, significant cliff retreat has been observed in recent times. It used to be considered mainly a response to storm events with particularly high water levels and wave energy. However, morphology of cliff coasts is shaped not only by the most extreme storm surges or by a number of accompanying processes...journal article 2018
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Sayol España, J.M. (author), Marcos, M. (author)This study presents a novel methodology to estimate the impact of local sea level rise and extreme surges and waves in coastal areas under climate change scenarios. The methodology is applied to the Ebro Delta, a valuable and vulnerable low-lying wetland located in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea. Projections of local sea level accounting...journal article 2018