Renske de Winter
expert on climate change impacts on the coast
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Renske.dewinter@deltares.nl LinkedIn profileDr. ir. Renske de Winter is an expert in the field climate change impacts on the coast. She executed her PhD-thesis on the influence of global warming on changes in offshore wave climate and storminess and how those changes influence dune erosion along the Dutch coast. After her PhD she was involved in the construction of extreme sea level rise projections as well as the long term morphological behaviour of the Barrier islands in the Wadden Sea. She highly values combining the assessment of global warming driven changes with the local impacts those changes can have at the scale of local coasts and potential adaptation measures to those climate change driven impacts. This is also reflected by the companies where she worked and studied, with a Master from Delft University of Technology and a PhD-research conducted at KNMI (Dutch Metrological Institute) and Utrecht University.
In the last years she has been working with deterministic and statistical models. Furthermore, for model validation and calibration, she was involved in flied works at beaches and barrier island in the Netherlands. Also she worked as assistant-professor for several years, apart from research, she lectured fluid mechanics, morphodynamics of wave-dominated coasts and supervised BSc, MSc and PhD research.
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Working experience
| 2018 - present | Deltares | advisor/researcher Hydraulic Engineering |
| 2015 - 2018 | Physical Geography, Utrecht University | Assistant professor |
| 2014 - 2015 | IMAU, Faculty of Science | Postdoc researcher |
| 2009 - 2014 | KNMI and Physical Geography, Utrecht University | PhD-candidate |
| 2009 - 2009 | DHV (now Royal HaskoningDHV) | technical consultant |
| 2007 - 2008 | Deltares | Intern |
| 2005 - 2007 | Civil Engineering, Delft University of Technology | Student-assistant |
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Impact of asymmetric uncertainties in ice sheet dynamics on regional sea level projections
De Winter, R.C., T.J. Reerink, A.B.A. Slangen, H. de Vries, T. Edwards and R. S.W. van de Wal (2017),
Impact of asymmetric uncertainties in ice sheet dynamics on regional sea level projections, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. doi:10.5194/nhess-2017-86 -
The effect of tides and storms on the sediment transport across a Dutch barrier island
Wesselman, D., R.C. de Winter, A. Engelstad, R. McCall, A. van Dongeren, P. Hoekstra, A. Oost and M. van der Vegt, (2017)
The effect of tides and storms on the sediment transport across a Dutch barrier island. Earth Surf. Process. Landforms, doi: 10.1002/esp.4235.
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The Impact of Uncertainties in Ice Sheet Dynamics on Sea-Level Allowances at Tide Gauge Locations
A.B.A. Slangen, R.S.W. van de Wal, T.J. Reerink, R.C. de Winter, J.R. Hunter, P.L. Woodworth and T. Edwards (2017).
The Impact of Uncertainties in Ice Sheet Dynamics on Sea-Level Allowances at Tide Gauge Locations, J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2017, 5(2), 21; doi:10.3390/jmse5020021
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Sensitivity analysis of climate change impacts on dune erosion: case study for the Dutch Holland coast
De Winter, R.C. and B.G. Ruessink, (2017).
Sensitivity analysis of climate change impacts on dune erosion: case study for the Dutch Holland coast. Climatic Change, 141, 685-701, doi: 10.1007/s10584-017-1922-3
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Evaluating uncertainties of future marine flooding occurrence as sea-level rises
Le Cozannet, G., J. Rohmer, A. Cazenave, D. Idier, R. van de Wal, R.C. de Winter, R. Pedreros, Y. Balouin, C. Vinchon & C. Oliveros (2015).
Evaluating uncertainties of future marine flooding occurrence as sea-level rises. Environmental Modelling and Software 73, 44-56, doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2015.07.021
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Observations and modeling of alongshore differences in dune erosion at Egmond aan Zee
De Winter, R.C., F. Gongriep & B.G. Ruessink (2014).
Observations and modeling of alongshore differences in dune erosion at Egmond aan Zee, the Netherlands. Coastal Engineering , 99, 167-175, doi: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2015.02.005
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Large-scale winds in the KNMI'14 climate change scenarios
Sterl, A., A. Bakker, H. van den Brink, R. Haarsma, A. Stepek, I. L. Wijnant and R.C. de Winter (2014).
Large-scale winds in the KNMI'14 climate change scenarios. Environmental Research Letters 10, 035004, 10.1088/1748-9326/10/3/035004
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Wind extremes in the North Sea Basin under climate change
De Winter, R.C., Sterl, A. & Ruessink, B.G. (2013).
Wind extremes in the North Sea Basin under climate change: An ensemble study of 12 CMIP5 GCMs. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 118, 1601–1612, doi: 10.1002/jgrd.50147.
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The effect of climate change on extreme waves in front of the Dutch coast
De Winter, R.C., Sterl, A., de Vries, J.W., Weber, S.L. & Ruessink, B.G. (2012).
The effect of climate change on extreme waves in front of the Dutch coast. Ocean dynamics, 62, 1139-1152. doi:10.1007/s10236-012-0551-7.
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Towards a process-based model to predict dune erosion along the Dutch Wadden coast
Ruessink, B.G., Boers, M., van Geer, P.F.C., de Bakker, A.T.M, Pieterse, A., Grasso, F.R.& de Winter, R.C. (2012).
Towards a process-based model to predict dune erosion along the Dutch Wadden coast. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences / Geologie en Mijnbouw, 91(3), 357-372.
Activities
| 2016 - present | Member and convener | Member of European Geophysical Union, organizer session “Natural hazards and climate change impacts in coastal areas” |