Niels van den Berg

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• PhD Coastal Morphodynamics (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2012)
• Master in Physical Geography (Utrecht University, 2003)

Coastal morphodynamics, sediment transport, hydrodynamics, numerical modelling. In specific, the formation of large scale shoreline sand waves.

• van den Berg, N. Modelling the dynamics of large scale shoreline sand waves. PHD THESIS, APPLIED PHYSICS DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA (2012) 
• Caballeria, M., Falqués, A., van den Berg, N. Potential instabilities of Catalan coastline induced by high-angle waves. PROCEEDINGS OF RIVER, COASTAL AND ESTUARINE MORPHODYNAMICS (2011), pp. 2133-2143 
• Falqués, A., van den Berg, N., Ribas, F., Caballeria, M. Modelling shoreline sand waves: application to the coast of Namibia.PROCEEDINGS OF RIVER, COASTAL AND ESTUARINE MORPHODYNAMICS (2011), pp. 2101-2113 
• van den Berg, N., Falqués, A., Ribas, F. Long-term evolution of nourished beaches under high angle wave conditions. JOURNAL OF MARINE SYSTEMS (2011) 88(1), pp. 102-112 doi: 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2011.02.018 
• van den Berg, N., Falqués, A,. Ribas, F. Shoreline sand waves and beach nourishments. PROCEEDINGS OF COASTAL ENGINEERING 2010 (2010) 

• Falqués, A., van den Berg, N., Calvete, D. The role of cross-shore profile dynamics on shoreline instability due to high-angle waves.COASTAL ENGINEERING 2008, VOLS 1-5 (2009), pp. 1826-1838 

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