High-resolution, large-scale laboratory measurements of a sandy beach and dynamic cobble berm revetment

Chris E Blenkinsopp; Paul M Bayle; Daniel C Conley; Gerd Masselink; Emily Gulson; Isabel Kelly; Rafael Almar; Ian L Turner; Tom E Baldock; Tomas Beuzen; Robert T McCall; Huub Rijper; Ad Reniers; Peter Troch; David Gallach-Sanchez; Alan J Hunter; Oscar Bryan; Gwyn Hennessey; Peter Ganderton; Marion Tissier; Matthias Kudella; Stefan Schimmels

doi:10.1038/s41597-021-00805-1

High-resolution, large-scale laboratory measurements of a sandy beach and dynamic cobble berm revetment

Sci Data. 2021 Jan 20;8(1):22. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00805-1.

Authors

Chris E Blenkinsopp¹, Paul M Bayle², Daniel C Conley³, Gerd Masselink³, Emily Gulson³, Isabel Kelly³, Rafael Almar⁴, Ian L Turner⁵, Tom E Baldock⁶, Tomas Beuzen^{5

7}, Robert T McCall⁸, Huub Rijper^{8

9

10}, Ad Reniers¹⁰, Peter Troch¹¹, David Gallach-Sanchez^{11

12}, Alan J Hunter¹³, Oscar Bryan¹³, Gwyn Hennessey², Peter Ganderton³, Marion Tissier¹⁰, Matthias Kudella¹⁴, Stefan Schimmels¹⁴

Affiliations

¹ Centre for Infrastructure, Geotechnics and Water Engineering, Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK. c.blenkinsopp@bath.ac.uk.
² Centre for Infrastructure, Geotechnics and Water Engineering, Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK.
³ School of Biological and Marine Sciences, Plymouth University, Drake Circus, PL4 8AA, Plymouth, UK.
⁴ IRD-LEGOS, UMR5566, 18 Av. Edouard Belin, 31400, Toulouse, France.
⁵ Water Research Laboratory, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNSW Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia.
⁶ School of Civil Engineering, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia.
⁷ Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
⁸ Department of Marine and Coastal Systems, Deltares, Boussinesqweg 1, 2629 HV, Delft, the Netherlands.
⁹ Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V., Rosmolenweg 20, 3356 LK, Papendrecht, the Netherlands.
¹⁰ Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, Stevinweg 1, 2628 CN, Delft, The Netherlands.
¹¹ Department of Civil Engineering, Ghent University, Technologiepark 60, Ghent, B-9052, Belgium.
¹² DEME Group, Scheldedijk 30, 2070, Zwijndrecht, Belgium.
¹³ Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK.
¹⁴ Forschungszentrum Küste (FZK), Merkurstraße 11, 30419, Hannover, Germany.

Abstract

High quality laboratory measurements of nearshore waves and morphology change at, or near prototype-scale are essential to support new understanding of coastal processes and enable the development and validation of predictive models. The DynaRev experiment was completed at the GWK large wave flume over 8 weeks during 2017 to investigate the response of a sandy beach to water level rise and varying wave conditions with and without a dynamic cobble berm revetment, as well as the resilience of the revetment itself. A large array of instrumentation was used throughout the experiment to capture: (1) wave transformation from intermediate water depths to the runup limit at high spatio-temporal resolution, (2) beach profile change including wave-by-wave changes in the swash zone, (3) detailed hydro and morphodynamic measurements around a developing and a translating sandbar.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Abstract

Publication types

Grants and funding