in the Norderneyer Inlet Wave & Flow boundary conditions

In the framework of the SBW (Strength and Loading of Water Defenses) project which Deltares has been commissioned to execute for Rijkswaterstaat – Waterdienst, Rijkswaterstaat has requested a hindcast of the 1st November 2006 storm as part of the International Data Exchange Project, in this case an exchange between Netherlands and Germany. This storm is very interesting for the SBW (Strength and Loading of Coastal Structures) project, the objective of which is to develop reliable tools to determine hydraulic boundary conditions in the Wadden Sea. One of these tools is the SWAN wave transformation model, the reliability and performance of which needs to be validated using large measured storms. During the 1 November 2006 storm high water levels and high waves occurred both in the Dutch and German parts of the Wadden Sea. Since the geography of the two areas is similar, it is worthwhile investigating whether SWAN can reproduce the wave conditions in the Norderneyer Inlet. FSK Norderney will perform the hindcast study. However, since wave data offshore is not available during the time of the storm, Deltares is given the responsibility of determining the offshore boundary conditions for both the wave model and the flow model, which FSK Norderney will use as input for the hindcast of the tidal inlet