Dune erosion during a storm surge

Abstract This is a description of some aspects of the phenomenon of dune erosion as experienced on the Dutch coast with primary attention to a recently executed series of model tests. The final results of these tests have turned out to be more favourable than the results obtained from former concepts. As details on the model tests can be found in the report on model investigation of the Delft Hydraulics Laboratory (1976), they are only briefly described in this paper.