Complementing scale experiments of rivers and estuaries with numerically modelled hydrodynamics

Weisscher, Steven A. H.; Boechat-Albernaz, Marcio; Leuven, Jasper R. F. W.; Van Dijk, Wout M.; Shimizu, Yasuyuki; Kleinhans, Maarten G.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-8-955-2020

Articles | Volume 8, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-8-955-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-8-955-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 8, issue 4

Research article

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16 Nov 2020

Research article |

| 16 Nov 2020

Complementing scale experiments of rivers and estuaries with numerically modelled hydrodynamics

Steven A. H. Weisscher, Marcio Boechat-Albernaz, Jasper R. F. W. Leuven, Wout M. Van Dijk, Yasuyuki Shimizu, and Maarten G. Kleinhans

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RC1: 'Review on "Implementing a hydrodynamic model to complement water depth and flow velocity data for physical scale experiments of rivers and estuaries"', Laurent Lacaze, 22 Apr 2020
- AC1: 'Reply to RC1: Reviewers comments for esurf-2020-14', Steven Weisscher, 29 Jun 2020
RC2: 'Interactive comment on “Implementing a hydrodynamic model to complement water depth and flow velocity data for physical scale experiments of rivers and estuaries” by Steven A. H. Weisscher et al.', Michal Tal, 26 May 2020
- AC2: 'Reply to RC2: Reviewers comments for esurf-2020-14', Steven Weisscher, 29 Jun 2020

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Steven Weisscher on behalf of the Authors (27 Jul 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (15 Aug 2020) by Eric Lajeunesse

RR by Michal Tal (01 Sep 2020)

RR by Laurent Lacaze (09 Sep 2020)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (09 Sep 2020) by Eric Lajeunesse

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (17 Sep 2020) by Niels Hovius (Editor)

AR by Steven Weisscher on behalf of the Authors (24 Sep 2020) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

Accurate and continuous data collection is challenging in physical scale experiments. A novel means to augment measurements is to numerically model flow over the experimental digital elevation maps. We tested this modelling approach for one tidal and two river scale experiments and showed that modelled water depth and flow velocity closely resemble the measurements. The implication is that conducting experiments requires fewer measurements and results in flow data of better overall quality.