INTERCOMPARISON OF COASTAL PROFILE MODELS

Ida Broker Hedegaard, J.A. Roelvink, Howard Southgate, Philippe Pechon, John Nicholson, Luc Hamm

Abstract


The present paper briefly presents 6 different models for short term coastal profile modelling for direct incoming waves. The models have been tested against measured profile evolutions from a large wave flume. Features such as wave height distribution, cross shore current profiles and sediment transport are compared and discussed.

Keywords


coastal profile; model intercomparison

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