Final Report Summary - NATARISE (Natural and Artificially Influenced Swash-Groundwater Interactions Experiments)
Within this context, the NATARISE project was based on two major objectives:
1. To investigate swash/groundwater interactions between contrasting European beaches; and
2. To understand how BDS promotes beachface sedimentation, while investigating the instantaneous effects of the drainage influence over swash in/exfiltration speeds and volumes.
To reach these objectives, NATARISE was separated into 4 work-packages:
1. Influence of tide over beachface morphodynamics of meso-macrotidal beaches.
2. Influence of short waves / long waves over beachface morphodynamic of microtidal beaches.
3. Impact of beach dewatering systems over instantaneous beachface morphodynamics of a microtidal reflective beach.
4. Modelling of natural and artificially influenced beachface morphodynamics of contrasting beaches.
During the actual project, the researcher placed considerable effort on work-packages 1 and 2 (i.e. objective 1). The field measurements belonging to work-package 2 required far more preparation time than originally anticipated. Also, the data was more noisy that envisaged and thus more work had to be spent on data validation. As a result, work on packages 3 and 4 (i.e. objective 2) was not carried out.