1. Measurements of morphodynamics of a sheltered beach along the Dutch Wadden Sea.
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van der Lugt, Marlies A., Bosma, Jorn W., de Schipper, Matthieu A., Price, Timothy D., van Maarseveen, Marcel C. G., van der Gaag, Pieter, Ruessink, B. Gerben, Reniers, Ad J. H. M., and Aarninkhof, Stefan G. J.
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BEACHES , *BARRIER islands , *TIDAL currents , *COMPOSITION of sediments , *SEDIMENT transport , *BEACH erosion , *TURBIDITY - 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 the man-made beach on the leeside of the barrier island Texel, bordering the Marsdiep basin that is part of the Dutch Wadden Sea. The data set 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 bathy-topo map and (5) meteorological data. This manuscript outlines how these measurements were set up and how the data have been processed, stored and can be accessed. The novelty of this data set lies in the detailed approach to resolve forcing conditions on a sheltered beach, where sediment transport is governed by a strong interplay between tidal currents, waves and bed composition, primarily due to the low-energy (near-threshold) forcing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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