MEASUREMENT PROGRAMME DUTCH WADDEN SEA

This paper aims to give a short overview of the Dutch measurement programme in the Wadden Sea. The background and goals of the measurements are explained. The measurement site has been growing over the last years to one of the largest campaigns in Europe for high quality on-line measurements of physical parameters such as waves, currents, water levels and wind. The information requests from research studies determine the strategy of the campaign, which gives researches an explicit chance of gaining complete data sets for model evaluation and development.