Beachwatch : The effect of daily morphodynamics on seasonal beach evolution

Not only the storm intensity, but also the capacity of the beach to recover during fair weather conditions, influences the erosion trends of beaches. Susanne Quartel concludes this in her thesis in which the daily changes of the intertidal beach of Noordwijk aan Zee, the Netherlands, are described. She used daily images, which were taken around low tide by a shore-based Argus-video system. Besides, height measurements were executed monthly on the beach of Noordwijk during a period of 3 years. Only storm events that last at least 30 hours with an average offshore root-mean-square wave height ov... Mehr ...