Unraveling Multimodal Nearshore Wind-wave Fields On The Dutch Shoreface
Christiaan D. Hoogervorst (TU Delft - Coastal Engineering)
José A. Á. Antolinez (TU Delft - Coastal Engineering)
Jesús Portilla-Yandún (Escuela Politecnica Nacional)
G. Lavidas (TU Delft - Offshore Engineering)
M. Tissier (TU Delft - Environmental Fluid Mechanics)
SGJ Aarninkhof (TU Delft - Civil Engineering & Geosciences)
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Abstract
Changing (wind) climate might influence the magnitude, direction, and frequency of wave systems (Lobeto et al., 2021). However, in coastal engineering applications, generalized wave parameters are commonly used in climate change assessments with the risk of, for example, misrepresenting the nearshore transformation of wind-driven wave climates (Hegermiller et al., 2017). In consequence, these uncertainties in the nearshore (wind) climate will affect, amongst others, ship navigation, the implementation of marine renewable energy farms, the feasibility of coastal infrastructure and defences, or the efficiency of sandy coastal maintenance, and thus the decision-making of long-term, multidecadal coastal strategies (Rijksoverheid, 2013), especially when they are designed accounting for the Building with Nature concept (de Vriend et al., 2015). This study analyses the importance and application of considering multiple coexisting wave trains on the Dutch shoreface.
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