Estuary research programme - phase 1

This project explored the best ways of predicting how the shape of estuaries will change as a result of environmental, water quality and human factors

• From: Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Research and Development Programme and Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Published: 11 February 2021

• Category: Understanding risks from all sources of flooding
• Topics: Big data, Coast, Coastal erosion, Flood forecasting and Flood risk assessment
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  Hydrology, Meteorology, Modelling, Natural flood management, Sea level rise, Sustainability, and Understanding physical processes
• Project status: Completed
• Project code: FD1401
• Date of completion: 31 December 2000

Documents

Estuary research programme- phase I - final report (23KB) PDF

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Details

Flood defence, navigation, water quality and conservation all influence, and in turn are influenced by, the shape (morphology) of an estuary. One of the challenges in predicting changes in the morphology is choosing a suitable prediction method. This project investigated how different ways of predicting change can be used to evaluate different ways of managing estuaries.

It examined six different estuaries through:

• collecting data
• testing models
• analysis

The objective was to produce a set of tools for predicting short and long-term changes in the shape of estuaries, taking account of ecological, water quality and human factors.

Published 11 February 2021