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Objectives

• To address gaps in process knowledge that inhibit the development of reliable coastal area sand transport models (for example the effect of local variations in the mobile bed roughness).
• To validate local modelling concepts using existing and new large-scale laboratory and field data obtained using the new rig STABLE III (Sediment Transport And Boundary Layer Equipment).
• To critically assess, based on the of field data from Sea Palling and the outer Dee, the extent to which our sand transport predictive capabilities remain valid in a mixed sediment environment.
• To parameterise, over a wide range of coastal conditions (i.e. a seabed comprising sand or mixed sediments, in combined wave and tidal conditions), the results of a local transport model.
• To implement parameterised model within POLCOMS and TELEMAC, delivering a robust code for use in other area models. These models will be used to compute the annual sediment budgets in the outer Dee Estuary.