Ongoing research and development includes:
- Suite of Matlab apps developed, which can be downloaded below, including:
- ASMITA – a model of long-term inlet dynamics that aggregates elements to examine long-term morphological change;
- CoastalTools – a toolbox to examine coastal process data such as waves, water levels and beach profiles and carry out various modelling using the measured data as the main input. Provides for a wide range of data formats but in particular caters for data from the Channel Coastal Observatory;
- ChannelForm – a kinematic model to study marine transgression of estuaries;
- CSTmodel – a quasi-analytical hydraulic model of convergent tidal channels to estimate water levels under combined tide and river forcing.
- ModelSkill – a toolbox to evaluate performance of timeseries predictions at a point, or gridded data sets, using Taylor plots and Skill Scores.
- ModelUI – a demonstration pack to illustrate how to create bespoke user interfaces using the muitoolbox;
- MRBreach – an App to investigate the hypsometry and design breaches for managed realignment sites;
- SedTools – a toolbox to analyse and plot settling column data;
- WaveRayModel – forward and backward ray tracing model to examine inshore wave spectra.
- A model to decompose energy flux within an inlet or estuary and examine the variations in space and time.
- An investigation of spit-delta dynamics and the switch between the two states;
- Investigation of beach dynamics and the influence of storm clusters on beach recovery;
- Tools to measure sediment properties over the surficial layer of the sea bed and tidal flat (top 1-2 metres);
- Understanding the initial evolution of enclosed sites opened up to tidal inundation for managed realignment projects;
- Improved basis for defining equilibrium of estuaries and inlets under stationary conditions.