Publications

related to sediment trapping in estuaries, 2006-present

Talke, S.A. & H.E. de Swart, 2006.  Hydrodynamics and Morphology in the Ems/Dollard Estuary:  Review of Models, Measurements, Scientific Literature, and the Affects of Changing Conditions.  IMAU Report 06-01.  Reprint available upon request.

Huijts, K.M.H. , H.M. Schuttelaars & H. E. de Swart (2006). Lateral entrapment of sediment in tidal estuaries: An idealized model study. Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, F02013, doi:10.1029/2005JF000312.

Talke, S.A., H.E. de Swart & H.M.Schuttelaars, 2008.  An analytical model for the equilibrium distribution of sediment in an estuary. In: Dohmen-Janssen & Hulscher (eds), River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics, pp. 403-411, A.A. Balkema Publishers – Taylor & Francis The Netherlands.

Talke, S.A., H.E. de Swart & H.M.Schuttelaars, 2009.  Feedback between residual circulation and sediment distribution in highly turbid estuaries: an analytical model. Continental Shelf Research 29, 119-135. Doi:10.1016/j.csr.2007.09.002. Re-print available upon Request.

Huijts, K.M.H., H.M. Schuttelaars, H.E. de Swart & C.T. Friedrichs, 2009. Analytical study of the transverse distribution of along-channel and transverse residual flows in tidal estuaries. Continental Shelf Research 29, 89-100.   Re-print available upon request.

Talke, S.A., H.E. de Swart & V.N. de Jonge, 2009. An idealized model and systematic process study of oxygen depletion in highly turbid estuaries. Estuaries and Coasts 32, 602-620. Doi: 10.1007/s12237-009-9171-y. Re-print available upon request.

Chernetsky, A., H.M. Schuttelaars & S.A. Talke, 2010. The effect of tidal asymmetry and temporal settling lag on sediment trapping in tidal estuaries. Ocean Dynamics 60, 1219-1241. Re-print available upon request.

Schramkowski, G.P., H.E. de Swart & H.M. Schuttelaars, 2010. Effect of bottom stress formulation on modelled flow and turbidity maxima in cross-sections of tide-dominated estuaries. Ocean Dynamics 60, 205-218. DOI: 10.1007/s10236-009-0235-0. Re-print available upon request.

Cheng, P., A. Valle-Levinson & H.E. de Swart, 2010. Residual currents induced by asymmetric tidal mixing in weakly stratified narrow estuaries. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 40, 2135-2147. DOI: 10.1175/2010JPO4314.1. Re-print available upon request.

Huijts, K.M.H., H.E. de Swart, G.P. Schramkowski & H.M.Schuttelaars, 2011. Transverse structure of tidal flow, residual flow and sediment concentration in estuaries: Sensitivity to tidal forcing and water depth. Ocean Dynamics 61, 1067-1091. DOI: 10.1007/s10236-011-0414-7. Re-print available upon request.

Cheng, P., A.Valle-Levinson & H.E. de Swart, 2011. A numerical study of residual circulation induced by asymmetric tidal mixing in tidally dominated estuaries. Journal of Geophysical Research 116, C01017, 7. DOI:10.1029/2010JC006137. Re-print available upon request.

Jiang, C., J. Li & H.E. de Swart, 2012. Effects of navigational works on the morphological change in the bar area of the Yangtze estuary. Geomorphology 139-140, 205-219. DOI:10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.10.020. Re-print available upon request.

Zitman, T. & H.M. Schuttelaars, 2012. Importance of cross-channel bathymetry and eddy viscosity parameterisation in modelling estuarine flow. Ocean Dynamics 62, 603-631. Re-print available upon request.

Wang, Z.B., P. Hoekstra, H. Burchard, H. Ridderinkhof, H.E. de Swart & M.J.F. Stive, 2012. Morphodynamics of the Wadden Sea and its barrier island system. Ocean & Coastal Management 68, 39-57. DOI:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2011.12.022.

Schuttelaars, H.M., V.N. de Jonge & A. Chernetsky, 2013. Improving the predictive power when modelling physical effects of human interventions in estuarine systems. Ocean & Coastal Management 79, 70-82. DOI:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2012.05.009.

Cheng, P., H. E. de Swart, and A. Valle-Levinson, 2013. Role of asymmetric tidal mixing in the subtidal dynamics of narrow estuaries.
Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, C118, 2326-2339. DOI:10.1002/jgrc.20189.

Jiang, Chenjuan, H.E. de Swart, J. Li and G. Liu, 2013. Mechanisms of along-channel sediment transport in the North Passage of the Yangtze Estuary and their response to large-scale interventions. Ocean Dynamics 63, 283-305. DOI: 10.1007/s10236-013-0594-4.

Donker, J.J.A. and H.E. de Swart, 2013. Effects of bottom slope, flocculation and hindered settling on the coupled dynamics of currents and suspended sediment in highly turbid estuaries, a simple model. Ocean Dynamics 63:311–327. DOI: 10.1007/s10236-013-0593-5.

Yang, Z., H.E. de Swart, H. Cheng, C. Jang and A. Valle-Levinson, 2014. Modelling lateral entrapment of suspended sediment in estuaries:
The role of spatial lags in settling and M4 tidal flow. Continental Shelf Research 85, 126-142, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2014.06.005.

De Jonge, V.N., H.M. Schuttelaars, J.E.E. van Beusekom, S.A. Talke and H.E. de Swart, 2014. The influence of channel deepening on estuarine turbidity levels and dynamics, as exemplified by the Ems estuary. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science 139, 46-59. DOI:10.1016/j.ecss.2013.12.030.

Roos, P.C. and H.M. Schuttelaars, 2015. Resonance properties of tidal channels with multiple retention basins: role of adjacent sea. Ocean Dynamics 65, 311-324, doi: 10.1007/s10236-015-0813-2.

Chen, W.L., P.C. Roos, H.M. Schuttelaars and S.J.M.H. Hulscher, 2015. Resonance properties of a closed rotating rectangular basin subject to space- and time-dependent wind forcing. Ocean Dynamics 65, 325-339, doi: 10.1007/s10236-015-0813-2.

Ensing, E., H.E. de Swart and H.M. Schuttelaars, 2015. Sensitivity of tidal motion in well-mixed estuaries to cross-sectional shape, deepening, and sea level rise. Ocean Dynamics 65, 933-950, doi: 10.1007/s10236-015-0844-8.

Chen, W.L., P.C. Roos, H.M. Schuttelaars, M. Kumar, T.J. Zitman and S.J.M.H. Hulscher, 2016. Response of large-scale coastal basins to wind forcing: influence of topography. Ocean Dynamics 66, 549-565, doi: 10.1007/s10236-016-0927-1.

The estuarine group is part of the Coastal and Shelf Sea Dynamics group of the Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies, Utrecht (IMAU).  The IMAU is part of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Utrecht, Netherlands. 

This project is financed by the Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) and by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO, see http://www.nwo.nl/), as part of the international Wadden Sea programme (GEORISK project).

last modified: June 2016