Verification set Haringvliet : October 14,1982-October 15,1982

The project HYDRA was set-up by the National Institute for Coastal & Marine Management I RIKZto provide the hydraulic input parameters for the safety analysis along the coast and in the estuaries of the Netherlands. One part of the HYDRA project considers wave measurements (field as well as laboratory) which are necessary for validation of numerical wave modelling. A very interesting measurement campaign was conducted in fall 1982 in a shallow water region off-shore the Haringvliet-sluices in the Netherlands. The field data were presented and used in several publications, which have lead to some confusion and misunderstanding of interpretation of the data and availability. That is why Rijkswaterstaat decided in 1994 to process and present the original wave data again and focus on the storm that took place at October 14 and 15 in 1982. This report gives a presentation of the Haringvliet wave data 1982, and the way the standard classification of the wave data sets is available at RIKZ.