Sand Engine, Kijkduin, The Hague, the Netherlands. Researchers (Jantien Rutten and Paul van Wiechen; Delft University of Technology) service instruments and measure coastal morphology. During a six-week field experiment along the Dutch coast, two dunes have been artificially created by bulldozers to be eroded by wind, surge, and wave forcing. During these events, a large array of over 60 sensors were installed to measure bed-altimetry, water levels, flow velocities, dune morphology, sediment concentrations, etc. Three storms have subsequently hit the artificial dunes and instruments. During this international RealDune/Reflex experiment, the relation between wave forcing (and nearshore wave transformation) and morphological changes due to (and during) the storms are intensively studied in a 3D field domain. Results are analyzed and ultimately used to improve detailed dune erosion models. (Photograph taken November 2021 by Dr. Ir. S. (Sierd) de Vries, TU Delft, The Netherlands.)
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Sand Engine, Kijkduin, The Hague, the Netherlands. Researchers (Jantien Rutten and Paul van Wiechen; Delft University of Technology) service instruments and measure coastal morphology. During a six-week field experiment along the Dutch coast, two dunes have been artificially created by bulldozers to be eroded by wind, surge, and wave forcing. During these events, a large array of over 60 sensors were installed to measure bed-altimetry, water levels, flow velocities, dune morphology, sediment concentrations, etc. Three storms have subsequently hit the artificial dunes and instruments. During this international RealDune/Reflex experiment, the relation between wave forcing (and nearshore wave transformation) and morphological changes due to (and during) the storms are intensively studied in a 3D field domain. Results are analyzed and ultimately used to improve detailed dune erosion models. (Photograph taken November 2021 by Dr. Ir. S. (Sierd) de Vries, TU Delft, The Netherlands.)

Sand Engine, Kijkduin, The Hague, the Netherlands. Researchers (Jantien Rutten and Paul van Wiechen; Delft University of Technology) service instruments and measure coastal morphology. During a six-week field experiment along the Dutch coast, two dunes have been artificially created by bulldozers to be eroded by wind, surge, and wave forcing. During these events, a large array of over 60 sensors were installed to measure bed-altimetry, water levels, flow velocities, dune morphology, sediment concentrations, etc. Three storms have subsequently hit the artificial dunes and instruments. During this international RealDune/Reflex experiment, the relation between wave forcing (and nearshore wave transformation) and morphological changes due to (and during) the storms are intensively studied in a 3D field domain. Results are analyzed and ultimately used to improve detailed dune erosion models. (Photograph taken November 2021 by Dr. Ir. S. (Sierd) de Vries, TU Delft, The Netherlands.)
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Sand Engine, Kijkduin, The Hague, the Netherlands. Researchers (Jantien Rutten and Paul van Wiechen; Delft University of Technology) service instruments and measure coastal morphology. During a six-week field experiment along the Dutch coast, two dunes have been artificially created by bulldozers to be eroded by wind, surge, and wave forcing. During these events, a large array of over 60 sensors were installed to measure bed-altimetry, water levels, flow velocities, dune morphology, sediment concentrations, etc. Three storms have subsequently hit the artificial dunes and instruments. During this international RealDune/Reflex experiment, the relation between wave forcing (and nearshore wave transformation) and morphological changes due to (and during) the storms are intensively studied in a 3D field domain. Results are analyzed and ultimately used to improve detailed dune erosion models. (Photograph taken November 2021 by Dr. Ir. S. (Sierd) de Vries, TU Delft, The Netherlands.)

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