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 3ĝ€¯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: 10.4121/19c5676c-9cea-49d0-b7a3-7c627e436541 .
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 903-918 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Earth System Science Data |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 16 Feb 2024 |
Bibliographical note
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Funding
This field campaign was supported by Jan De Nul Group, Hoogheemraadschap Hollands Noorderkwartier, Waterproof B.V., Arcadis and Deltares. We thank the reviewers Arnaud Héquette and Kévin Martins for their valuable suggestions that really improved this manuscript. We thank dredging company Jan De Nul Group in particular for supplying the bathymetric data and deploying the wave buoy in the channel. We would like to thank the staff of the Utrecht University Earth Simulation Lab, in particular Mark Eijkelboom, Henk Markies and Arjan van Eijk, and the staff of the TU Delft Fieldwork Lab, Chantal Willems, Arie van der Vlies and Arno Doorn for all their efforts in the preparation and execution of this campaign. Special thanks to the dedication of MSc students involved in the campaign: Jelle Woerdman, Martijn klein Obbink, Roel Hoegen, Ruurd Jaarsma and Menno van Maanen. This research has been supported by the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek – Domain Applied and Engineering Sciences (grant no. 18035: EURECCA “Effective Upgrades and REtrofits for Coastal Climate Adaptation”).
| Funders | Funder number |
|---|---|
| EURECCA | |
| Hoogheemraadschap Hollands Noorderkwartier | |
| Jan De Nul Group | |
| Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek – Domain Applied and Engineering Sciences | 18035 |
| WaterProof B.V. |