Quantified and applied sea-bed dynamics of the Netherlands Continental Shelf and the Wadden Sea

Sedimentary coasts and shallow-sea beds may be dynamic. The large-scaled spatial variation in these dynamics and the smaller-scaled behaviour of individual marine bedforms are largely unknown. Sea-bed dynamics are relevant for the safety of shipping, and therefore for monitoring strategies, and for offshore engineering projects and archaeological investigations. To date, sea-bed dynamic studies in the North Sea that are based on high-resolution echo soundings are mostly local. Recently, sufficient time series of modern, digital echo sounder surveys have become available to allow for a Netherla... Mehr ...