2.1. Local case study: Poole Harbour
Poole Harbour is located on the central South coast of England,
immediately to the west of the Poole and Bournemouth conurbation
in the county of Dorset. It is a bar built estuary with a micro-
tidal regime (1.8 m at spring tides), which retains water
through much of the tidal cycle (May, 2005).