Prediction of Aggregated-scale Coastal Evolution

Objective

The PACE project has the objective to validate, improve and extend engineers'and scientists' capabilities to understand and reliably predict the large-scale morphological behaviour of sandy coasts and to bring this product closer to the end users (coastal zone managers, public dicision makers). To that end, coastal morphodynamic processes are observed, analysed and modelled at scales much larger than those of the predominant variations of the system's input and its constituent hydrodynamic and sediment transport processes. Four interwoven avenues will be followed to achieve these goals, viz. - "data-driven modelling", trying to describe the observed coastal behaviour in mathematical terms without going into the underlying dynamics, - analysis of the morphodynamic system's inherent stability, i.e. its tendency to form rhythmic morphological features, - "upscaling" from detailed descriptions of waves, currents and sediment transport in interaction with the changing bed topography, - qualitative modelling, meant to provide convincing information to lay people involved in decision-making processes concerning coastal zone management.
The project builds upon the knowledge of detailed physical processes which has been developed in MAST-I, MAST-II and similar programmes, on the world's best long-term data and on a worldwide network which provides links with a number of similar research projects in Australia, the U.S.A. and Poland. Thus it brings together a large part of the world's most prominent researchers in thiS field, giving them access to each others models, to the data they need and to a number of end users of their knowledge.
It involves more than 50 senior researchers and a similar number of junior researchers from 17 institutes in European countries and Australia. The basic working units are five "Topics", dealing with
l) decadal scale modelling,
2) very-large-scale modelling (centuries and more),
3) the analysis and prediction of large-scale bar and sandbank systems, 4) tidal-inlet submodels for models of barrier-island coasts and 5) the link with the end users.

Fields of science

• natural sciences › earth and related environmental sciences › geology › sedimentology
• natural sciences › physical sciences › astronomy › planetary sciences › planetary geology

Programme(s)

• FP4-MAST 3 - Specific programme of research and technological development in the field of marine science and technology, 1994-1998

Topic(s)

• 020101 - Coastal processes and morphodynamics

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE

Address

5,drienerlolaan 5
7522 NB Enschede
Netherlands

Participants (17)

Centre Internacional d'Investigacio dels Recursos Costaners

Spain

Address

S/n,c/gran Capita
08034 Barcelona

H R Wallingford Group Ltd

United Kingdom

Address

Howberry Park
OX10 8BA Wallingford

Lund University

Sweden

Address

1,
221 00 Lund

MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY

United Kingdom

Address

Queensway
EN3 4SF Enfield

MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT PUBLIC WORKS AND WATER MANAGEMENT

Netherlands

Address

Kortenaerkade 1
2500 EX Den Haag ('S-gravenhage)

Novosibirsk State University

Russia

Address

4,universitetski
630090 Novosibirsk

Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht

Netherlands

Address

4,budapestlaan
3584 CD Utrecht

Sogreah Ingenierie SNC

France

Address

6,rue De La Lorraine
38130 Echirolles

Stichting Waterloopkundig Laboratorium

Netherlands

Address

28,voorsterweg
8300 AD Emmeloord

TECNOMARE SPA - SOCIETA PER LO SVILUPPO DELLE TECNOLOGIE MARINE

Italy

Address

San Marco 3584
30124 Venezia

Technische Universiteit Delft

Netherlands

Address

1,stevinweg
2628 CN Delft

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA TRE

Italy

Address

Largo San Leonardo Murialdo, 1
00146 Roma

UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA

Spain

Address

1-3,calle Jordi Girona Salgado 1-3 Campus Nord - Modùl
08034 Barcelona

University of Liverpool

United Kingdom

Address

Abercromby Square
L69 3BX Liverpool

Links

University of Sydney

Australia

Address

2006 Sydney

Università degli Studi di Genova

Italy

Address

Via Montallegro 1
16145 Genova

Woodward-Clyde Limnos SA

Spain

Address

168,bruc
08037 Barcelona