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two on the south English coast. These have resulted in a very large amount of high quality
data, some of which have already been incorporated into a data-bank following stringent
quality and consistency checks (Vermetten, 1999), and the rest will follow imminently.
Numerical modellers have gathered at both the sites to participate in “Modellers’ Weeks”,
boosted by modellers external to the project. The work done in these events, together with a
much larger effort when back at base, has made good use of the data to test, intercompare and
improve the models’ capabilities for predicting the distributions and evolution of waves, waterlevels,
currents, sediment transport and bed morphology at the two sites. The data is also being
used by the experimenters to derive a better understanding of the processes involved, which
can subsequently be used to develop the numerical models further, as well as providing
important information in its own right. The results from the data and the modelling, together
with an assessment of the new monitoring techniques used, are being pulled together into a
form that is of direct use for coastal zone management.
The project is now past the “high-risk” stage of the field campaigns. We are now, in its final
year, into the most interesting part of the project, when the analysis and interpretation of the
data, the main model testing, the publication of the results, and their digestion into CZM Tools
take place. All these activities are being undertaken interactively between the partners,
facilitated by meetings and email correspondence.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The work described in this paper was undertaken within the COAST3D project funded partly
by the European Commission’s research programme MAST-III under Contract Number
MAS3-CT97-0086 and partly through national funding from the UK Ministry of Agriculture,
Fisheries and Food under research project FD0803, the UK Environment Agency’s Research
and Development programme, the UK Natural Environment Research Council, and the
Netherlands Rijkswaterstaat/RIKZ . Logistical support and background data for the Egmond
site were provided by the Netherlands Rijkswaterstaat/RIKZ as part of the KUST*2000
research programme. Logistical support at the Teignmouth site was co-sponsored by the
UK Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food under research project FD 0803, and the UK
Environment Agency’s Research and Development programme.
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