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Coastal Study Of Three - Dimensional Sand Transport Processes And Morphodynamics (COAST3D)
WELCOME TO THE PROJECT PAGES OF COAST3D
The purpose of the COAST3D project (1997-2001) was
to improve understanding of the physics of coastal sand transport and morphodynamics
to remedy the present lack of validation data of sand transport and morphology suitable for testing numerical models of coastal processes
to test a representative sample of numerical models for predicting coastal sand transport and morphodynamics against this data
to deliver validated modelling tools, and methodologies for their use, in a form suitable for coastal zone management
to deliver a set of guidelines for practical coastal zone management (CZM)
Comprehensive datasets were collected at Egmond-aan-Zee (NL) and Teignmouth (UK) and modelling performed at both.
The project was undertaken by a consortium of 11 partners
including hydraulic laboratories, universities and national regulatory
authorities from five EU states (UK, Netherlands, France, Spain and
Belgium). An overview of the project is available here.
A video suitable for
educational purposes is available for a small handling charge form Université
de Caen.
The main results are described in the Final
Scientific Report and the CZM guidelines.
The data from the experiments is publicly
available. The full list of publications
is also available.
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The COAST3D project was funded partly by the Marine Science and Technology
(MAST) RTD programme of the European Union under Contract Number MAS3-CT97-0086, and partly through national funding from the UK Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food research project FD0803, the UK Environmental Agency (R&D Programme), the UK Natural Environment Research Council, and the Netherlands Rikjswaterstaat.
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For Further Information Contact:
Richard Soulsby at HR Wallingford,
Howbery Park, Wallingford, OXON OX10 8BA, UK
Email: r.soulsby@hrwallingford.co.uk |
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