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Measurements of morphodynamics of a sheltered beach along the Dutch Wadden Sea

Journal Article (2024)
Author(s)

M.A. van der Lugt (TU Delft - Coastal Engineering, Deltares)

Jorn W. Bosma (Universiteit Utrecht)

M. A. de Schipper (TU Delft - Coastal Engineering)

Timothy Price (Universiteit Utrecht)

Marcel C. G. van Maarseveen (Universiteit Utrecht)

P. van der Gaag (TU Delft - Lab Hydraulic Engineering)

Gerben Ruessink (Universiteit Utrecht)

Ad Reniers (TU Delft - Environmental Fluid Mechanics)

SGJ Aarninkhof (TU Delft - Civil Engineering & Geosciences)

Research Group
Coastal Engineering
Copyright
© 2024 M.A. van der Lugt, Jorn W. Bosma, M.A. de Schipper, Timothy D. Price, Marcel C. G. van Maarseveen, P. van der Gaag, Gerben Ruessink, A.J.H.M. Reniers, S.G.J. Aarninkhof
DOI related publication
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-903-2024
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Publication Year
2024
Language
English
Copyright
© 2024 M.A. van der Lugt, Jorn W. Bosma, M.A. de Schipper, Timothy D. Price, Marcel C. G. van Maarseveen, P. van der Gaag, Gerben Ruessink, A.J.H.M. Reniers, S.G.J. Aarninkhof
Research Group
Coastal Engineering
Issue number
2
Volume number
16
Pages (from-to)
903–918
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Abstract

A field campaign was carried out at a sheltered sandy beach with the aim of gaining new insights into the driving processes behind sheltered beach morphodynamics. Detailed measurements of the local hydrodynamics, bed-level changes and sediment composition were collected at a man-made beach on the leeside of the barrier island Texel, bordering the Marsdiep basin that is part of the Dutch Wadden Sea. The dataset consists of (1) current, wave and turbidity measurements from a dense cross-shore array and a 3 km alongshore array; (2) sediment composition data from beach surface samples; (3) high-temporal-resolution RTK-GNSS beach profile measurements; (4) a pre-campaign spatially covering topobathy map; and (5) meteorological data. This paper outlines how these measurements were set up and how the data have been processed, stored and can be accessed. The novelty of this dataset lies in the detailed approach to resolve forcing conditions on a sheltered beach, where morphological evolution is governed by a subtle interplay between tidal and wind-driven currents, waves and bed composition, primarily due to the low-energy (near-threshold) forcing. The data are publicly available at 4TU Centre for Research Data at: https://doi.org/10.4121/19c5676c-9cea-49d0-b7a3-7c627e436541 (Van der Lugt et al., 2023).