DynaRev - Dynamic Coastal Protection: Resilience of Dynamic Revetments Under Sea Level Rise

<p>This dataset contains processed data from the DynaRev experiments carried out in the Large Wave Flume (Grosser Wellenkanal, GWK) from&nbsp;14-08-2017 to 29-09-2017 as a Transnational Access project within the EU funded project HYDRALAB+ (654110).&nbsp;The dataset provided under this DOI&nbsp;includes the post-processed data detailed in the article submitted to Scientific Data titled &quot;High-resolution, prototype-scale laboratory measurements of nearshore wave processes and morphological evolution of a sandy beach with and without a dynamic cobble berm revetment&quot;</p> <p>The overall aim of this project was to construct a prototype-scale beach and investigate the response of the beach to a rising sea level and storms with and without a cobble berm dynamic revetment structure (a gravel or shingle ridge placed around the wave runup limit). The response of two beach configurations was investigated under erosive wave conditions (Hs=0.8m, Tp=6.0s) and a total sea-level rise, SLR = 0.4 m:</p> <p>i) an unmodified&nbsp; sand beach with an initially plane slope of 1:15, and<br> ii) a natural beach profile with a dynamic revetment installed at the location of the natural berm before imposing SLR.</p> <p>SLR was imposed in 4 steps of 0.1 m with an&nbsp;initial water depth of 4.5 m above the flume base.&nbsp; Each phase ran for a total of 58 hours, after which resilience testing under storm waves and accretive conditions was undertaken for a further 12 hours in each case.</p> <p>The changing profile of the sand beach and revetment was monitored throughout the experiments using a traditional profiler and a&nbsp;LiDAR array. Additional hydrodynamic measurements were obtained at the location of the offshore sandbar to investigate the process of bar formation and migration with SLR.</p> <p>The model set-up, experimental program and data structure are explained in the submitted Scientific Data paper.&nbsp;The data files are organised as detailed in &quot;DynaRev_Data_Structure.doc&quot;.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>