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Variation in Landsat 8-estimated land surface temperature with elevation from Spartina alterniflora marsh cross sections in the Georgia Coastal Ecosystems Long Term Ecological Research (GCE-LTER) site and Virginia Coast Reserve (VCR) LTER sites for winter and summer observations spanning 2013-2018
We estimated land surface temperature from top of atmosphere brightness temperature provided by Landsat 8's band 10 (a thermal band). We collected these measurements first for Spartina alterniflora dominated marsh near the Georgia Coastal Ecosystems Long Term Ecological Research (GCE-LTER) eddy covariance flux tower. Measurements were collected from pixels along three east-west cross sections that spanned a marsh edge to interior gradient. We extracted Landsat 8 data for all available cloud-free low tide dates during August, September, January and February during the years 2013 to 2018 and associated these with marsh elevation information from a 1 m^2 Digital Elevation Model (DEM), created by Haldik et al 2013, also available from the GCE data catalog (http://dx.doi.org/10.6073/pasta/4c5187ef603f70cd0a77ece24ef0fed9). We rescaled the DEM to the coarser spatial resolution of Landsat 8 (30 x 30 m) where the rescaled elevation was the mean of the constituent DEM values. Ultimately, we used generalized additive models to relate land surface temperature to elevation, while accounting for variation from spatial proximity, transect and sample date. These models revealed that land surface temperature was negatively related to marsh elevation on the marsh platform. We then confirmed the generality of this pattern by rederiving these same relationships for three cross sections of Spartina alterniflora marsh at Virginia Coast Reserve (VCR) LTER for winter sampling dates only (data also included here). DEM data for VCR LTER are available at https://www.vcrlter.virginia.edu/gisdata/LIDAR/USGS2015/. We used custom R functions that can convert Landsat 8 top of atmosphere brightness temperature or top of atmosphere radiance from band 10 data to land surface temperature, which are available at https://github.com/jloconnell/convert_top_of_atmosphere_thermal_to_land_surface_temperature. Currently, a provisional land surface temperature product is available on earthexplorer.usgs.gov, w
Abundance of eukaryote picophytoplankton and Synechococcus from a moored submersible flow cytometer at Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory, ongoing since 2003 (NES-LTER since 2017)
This is a decadal-scale time series of the abundance of eukaryote picophytoplankton and Synechococcus at 4 meters depth at the Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory, about 3 km south of Katama Beach, Edgartown, Massachusetts, USA. Picophytoplankton were sensed in situ by a submersible flow cytometer (FlowCytobot, or FCB). Sampling frequency was continuous at approximately 20-minute intervals binned to hourly resolution with some exceptions (e.g., winter in some years). This time series is ongoing for Northeast U.S. Shelf Long-Term Ecological Research (NES-LTER).
Event logs from Northeast U.S. Shelf Long Term Ecological Research (NES-LTER) cruises to the Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory (MVCO) ongoing since 2017
This package provides a table of cruises to the Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory for Northeast U.S. Shelf Long-Term Ecological Research (NES-LTER). The majority of events are single day cruises, however, samples missing an MVCO Event Number were collected on multi-day NES-LTER transect cruises aboard larger research vessels. The same sampling protocols for CTD and bongo collection are used on both cruise types. Sampling frequency is approximately monthly, with NES-LTER sampling ongoing since 2017. Cruises involve collection of water column bottle samples, surface bucket samples, and zooplankton net tow samples, as well as ship-provided data. NES-LTER transect cruises will have more extensive underway and acoustic data which can be found by searching by cruise at https://www.rvdata.us/data. The event number for each cruise is provided, along with date, vessel name, cruise identifier where applicable, link to data location (for CTD, ADCP, and other underway data), and checklist of six data types.
SBC LTER: Daily averages of modeled significant wave height (Hs) and peak wave period (Tp) in the Santa Barbara Coastal area from the Coastal Data Information Program - Monitoring and Prediction System (CDIP MOP)
From http://cdip.ucsb.edu: The Coastal Data Information Program (CDIP) is a research group at Scripps Institution of Oceanography that monitors coastal waves and nearshore sand levels on regional scales. CDIP maintains a network of optimally-placed, directional wave buoys from San Diego to Eureka. The buoy measurements are used to initialize a high spatial resolution (100m x 100m) linear spectral wave propagation model. The resulting hourly hindcasts and nowcasts of CA coastal wave conditions have a level of accuracy that is not possible with more traditional wind-wave generation models that are initialized with modeled wind fields.
Light profiles in the water column of coastal bays of Virginia 2011-2024
Measurements of light extinction were made from a small boat at designated stations. Measurements were taken above the water (AIR), 10 cm below the surface (SURFACE) and at depths from 25 cm (D_025cm) to 250 cm (D_250cm) below the surface. All light measurements were made with a Licor 4-pi quantum Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) sensor LI-193 and a LI-1000 or LI-250a light meter. All light units are in microEinsteins (moles of photons) Calculations of the extinction coefficient (Kd) should NOT include air measurements.
Spatial Variability in Marsh Vulnerability and Coastal Forest Loss in Chesapeake Bay
Sea level rise (SLR) and saltwater intrusion are driving shifts in coastal ecosystems that must migrate to survive. Marsh migration into adjacent uplands is a primary mechanism for sustaining coastal marshes, but potentially limited by natural and anthropogenic barriers. In this study, we focus on the Chesapeake Bay as a case study and combine previous delineations of the marsh-forest boundary and high-resolution topobathymetric data with sea level rise predictions to uniquely assess marsh migration potential on the scale of U.S. Geological Survey HUC10 watersheds. Combining these predictions results in a high-resolution Chesapeake Bay-wide assessment of marsh migration potential through the end of the century. Additionally, we analyze high-resolution land use data within the potential migration area to assess what ecosystems are at risk of loss to marsh via salinization and what potential anthropogenic features exist in the marsh migration corridor. The data consists of 3 files created from analyses conducted during the study: 1) A table summarizing characteristics of the study sites, including elevation and land use, and 2) A zipped Shapefile containing the boundaries of the HUC10 watersheds, 3) A zipped raster (CB_MarshMigrationArea.tif) of elevation categories. Cell values indicate: 1 = area below threshold elevation 2 = area between threshold elevation and 0.5 m of SLR. 3 = area between 0.5 and 1 m of SLR. 4 = area between 1 and 1.5 m of SLR. 5 = area between 1.5 and 2 m of SLR. 6 = area between 2 and 2.5 m of SLR. 7 = area above 2.5 m of SLR. Additionally, uploaded are 10 additional files containing the exact copies of the publicly available data we analyzed to create the above files. To obtain these files from their original sources (i.e. USGS, NOAA, etc) please see the links provided in the Metadata-LO-Letters-dat-V3.rtf file. 1) Points at the marsh-forest boundary 2) Chesapeake Conservancy High-Resolution Land Use 3) Chesapeake Conservancy High-Resolution L
Forest Transition Experiment - Leaf Litter in a Coastal Virginia Forest
Leaf litter collected in basket-based litter traps in forest transition plots
Surface Elevation (SET) Data for Brownsville Forest at the Virginia Coastal Reserve, 2019-2025
This dataset contains data from Surface Elevation Tables (SETs) located in the Brownsville Forest at the Virginia Coastal Reserve. These research plots were set up in 2019 as a part of a larger forest disturbance project. Marker Horizons and Shallow SETs were installed in 2020 but have not yet been measured. Tyler Messerschmidt has made all measurements of these SETs
Coastal landcover change and the associated biomass trends in the mid-Atlantic sea-level rise hotspot
Climate change is driving worldwide landscape reorganization. In the coastal ecosystem, climate-driven sea level rise is forcing landward marsh migration and forest die-off, with potentially large consequences on coastal carbon balance. Here we used 30 m resolution Landsat images to study coastal landcover change from 1984 to 2020, and analyzed the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI, a proxy of plant biomass) trend between 1984 and 2020 in the mid-Atlantic sea level rise hotspot. Our study region stretches across the entire Chesapeake Bay and the Delaware Bay to encompass all areas between 0-5m above sea level (total area ~12,500 km2). Specifically, the data package includes 3 raster datasets derived from the Landsat images. All datasets cover the identical mid-Atlantic region and have identical spatial resolution of 30 m. The two landcover datasets, named as 'Landcover_year1984.tif' and'Landcover_year2020.tif', respectively refer to landcover map in 1984 and 2020. Each of the maps has 7 landcover classes differentiated by different integers, and they are: water (0), farmland (1), urban area(2), upland forest (3), transition forest (4), marsh (5) and sandbar (6). Both landcover maps were generated using a combination of random forest classification and manual delineation, and the resultswere validated with high-resolution aerial photos and satellite images with an overall mapping accuracybeyond 90%. The third raster dataset, named as 'NDVItrend_1984to2020.tif', is the NDVI trend map. The value of each 30 by 30 m pixel in the map represents the slope of the NDVI trendline estimated using annual peak-growing season NDVI images acquired between 1984 and 2020. Negative values in the dataset represent decreases of NDVI (i.e. biomass loss, or ecosystem browning) from 1984 and 2020,whereas positive values correspond to an increase of NDVI (i.e. biomass gain, or ecosystem greening)between 1984 and 2020. The data package is completed.
Data from Bieri Thesis: Evaluating Coastal Protection Benefits of Restored Oyster Reef Designs - 2022
This dataset consists of spreadsheets used in the creation of: "Elizabeth Bieri, Evaluating Coastal Protection Benefits of Restored Oyster Reef Designs. MS Thesis, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. Advisors: Matthew Reidenbach & Patricia Wiberg, 2022" (https://doi.org/10.18130/2b04-wz72). Documentation on methods and types of data are given in the thesis and are not repeated here. There are two .zip files. One contains the original Excel workbooks. The other contains the data from individual sheets within the workbooks as comma-separated-value (.csv) text files. The file listing for the CSV files are: Archive: Bieri_Comma_separated_Value_Files.zip Length Date Time Name --------- ---------- ----- ---- 0 2025-12-15 12:47 Bieri_Comma_separated_Value_Files/ 1787 2025-12-15 12:41 Bieri_Comma_separated_Value_Files/elevation_crests.csv 239 2025-12-15 12:41 Bieri_Comma_separated_Value_Files/elevation_S4.csv 273 2025-12-15 12:41 Bieri_Comma_separated_Value_Files/elevation_S7.csv 652 2025-12-15 12:45 Bieri_Comma_separated_Value_Files/erosionpins_exposed.csv 476 2025-12-15 12:45 Bieri_Comma_separated_Value_Files/erosionpins_exposed_no_reef.csv 102 2025-12-15 12:46 Bieri_Comma_separated_Value_Files/erosionpins_S4.csv 97 2025-12-15 12:46 Bieri_Comma_separated_Value_Files/erosionpins_S7.csv 297 2025-12-15 12:41 Bieri_Comma_separated_Value_Files/grainsize_july.csv 290 2025-12-15 12:41 Bieri_Comma_separated_Value_Files/grainsize_oct.csv 399 2025-12-15 12:41 Bieri_Comma_separated_Value_Files/infauna_om_All.csv 509 2025-12-15 12:41 Bieri_Comma_separated_Value_Files/infauna_om_July2021.csv 507 2025-12-15 12:41 Bieri_Comma_separated_Value_Files/infauna_om_Oct2021.csv 1242 2025-12-15 12:41 Bieri_Comma_separated_Value_Files/infauna_om_Sed_OM.csv 516 2025-12-15 12:41 Bieri_Comma_separated_Value_Files/infauna_om_Sept2020.csv 913981 2025-12-15 12:41 Bieri_Comma_separated_Value_Files/jul2021waveS4.csv 715881 2025-12-15 12:41 Bieri_Comma_separated_Value_Files/jul2021waveS7.csv 5251
Oyster fauna lengths, counts, and biomass from restored and reference reefs in Virginia coastal bays, 2005-2023
Oyster reef fauna counts and lengths were sampled at natural "reference" reefs and restored shell plant reefs located in the Virginia Coast Reserve. Overfishing and disease decimated oyster reefs in the Virginia Coast Reserve in the 1900s. Reference reefs were defined as remnant reefs that naturally recovered in the early 2000s to develop the pronounced vertical structure and multiple oyster size classes that represent the desired endpoint of restoration efforts. Nearly every year since 2003, The Nature Conservancy and Virginia Marine Resource Commission have constructed oyster reefs in intertidal areas in the VCR. To construct the restored reefs, practitioners launched dredged, fossilized oyster shell from barges to intertidal locations chosen for their bottom stability and accessibility (locations lacked oysters prior to construction). Whelk shell supplemented the oyster shell at some of the restored reefs. TNC practitioners monitor select restored and reference reefs annually for adult and spat live oysters, adult and spat box oysters, mud crabs, mud snails, oyster drills, live clams, and mussels.
Sediment grain size in the Virginia coastal bays, 2022
This dataset contains sediment grain size distributions from benthic sediment cores collected from shallow sites across coastal bays of Virginia, USA. The samples were collected in July 2022 at 50 long-term sampling sites. Most sites were sampled in seagrass meadows (eelgrass Zostera marina), but some sites are unvegetated (bare substrate).
Impoundments in the Chesapeake Bay coastal zone, 2016
Migration of salt marshes into adjacent uplands presents an opportunity to maintain ecosystem resilience in the face of sea level rise. However, infrastructure installed in low-lying coastal areas can both intentionally and unintentionally act as barriers to marsh migration. In the Chesapeake Bay, impoundments are commonly installed on salt-impacted agricultural fields to create habitat for waterfowl. Most of these structures are privately built and owned, with no centralized, public record, which makes it difficult to assess ecosystem impacts. We use deep learning tools in ArcGIS Pro 3.2 to identify impoundments installed within the Chesapeake Bay coastal zone (0 - 5 m above sea level). We trained a Mask Region-based Convolutional Neural Network (R-CNN) model to detect impoundments using a dataset of slope generated from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Coastal National Elevation Database (CoNED) high resolution (1 m cell width) Topobathymetric Digital Elevation Model (TBDEM). Training samples were delineated in Somerset County, Maryland because of the extensive and rapid salinization of coastal farmland which has led to the widespread installation of waterfowl impoundments. The final set of training samples contained 3,900 images (512 x 512 m cell chip size), of which 90% were used for training and 10% were set aside for validation. The final model selected for impoundment detection had a precision score of 0.9609, which suggested that it performed well over the training area, and was then applied to the entire study region. We conducted extensive post-processing and visual examination of identified impoundments to account for any errors associated with applying the model to a broader region. The final dataset contained 1,684 impoundments which cover 6.6 km^2 (1,627 acres). The CoNED TBDEM was published in 2016, making these results a conservative estimate of impoundments in the Chesapeake Bay today.
A Lagrangian study of the contribution of the Canary coastal upwelling to the nitrogen budget of the open North Atlantic
<p>The attached datasets constitute the particle trajectory data produced in the experiment for Hailegeorgis et al..</p> <p>The "traj_upwell_1d_70m_1d-variables.nc" contains variables that describe different aspects of each upwelled particle (mostly regarding a particle's release or its initial or final conditions).</p> <p>The rest of the files with the format "traj_upwell_1d_70m_XXX-traj.nc" describe an attribute XXX (location or nutrient concentration) along the trajectory of upwelled particles tracked as part of the experiment.</p> <p>With ARIANE, particles are released and tracked in a ROMS simulation of the Canary coastal upwelling region. Out of the ~10M particles, the trajectories of the ~353K (~3.6%) that upwell are included. The variable "index_in_full_exp" in file "traj_upwell_1d_70m_1d-variables.nc" shows the index of each of these upwelling particles in the larger pool of released particles. For each upwelled particle, out of the 720-day trajectories starting from its release into the coast, the values from its upwelling step to its exit from the experiment are included, with the values outside this range being filled with a generic value (1.e20). An upwelled particle exits the experiment when it leaves the regional ROMS simulation altogether or when it leaves the coast and returns to the coast to re-upwell (more details in the paper).</p> <p>Be mindful of the different values of time. In "traj_upwell_1d_70m_1d-variables.nc", the variable "release_time" tells each particle's release time, in days since onset of the ROMS simulation, while variable "coast_exit_time" tells each particle's day of exiting coast, in days since its release. In each particle's trajectory (in traj_lon, traj_lat, etc), the first and last steps with valid values are the same as the days of its upwelling and its exit, respectively, since its release.</p> <p>The files contain the name and description of each variable. Along with the details in the publication, the descriptions here should be enough to fully interpret the information and replicate our analysis.</p>
Water levels at tide gauges from: Reconstruction of hourly coastal water levels and counterfactuals without sea level rise for impact attribution
<p>Data to reproduce the analysis of the Hourly Coastal water levels with Counterfactual (HCC) dataset, presented in the publication "<strong>Reconstruction of hourly coastal water levels and counterfactuals without sea level rise for impact attribution</strong>" published in Earth System Science Data (ESSD). </p><p>Note that in this repository, water levels are only provided tide gauge locations which were used for the analysis presented in the paper. The full Hourly Coastal water levels with Counterfactual (HCC) dataset is published in the <a href="https://doi.org/10.48364/ISIMIP.749905">ISIMIP repository</a>.</p><h2>File Descriptions</h2><h4>HCC_analysis_and_plots.ipynb</h4><p>This jupyter-notebook contains all scripts to produce the plots presented in the paper. Make sure that all necessary python packages are installed. The script assumes all netCDF files from this repository to be stored in a sub-directory called "data".</p><h3>hcc_gesla3_99pctl_surge_2011_2015.nc</h3><p>Extreme surge levels from 2011-2015 at 999 GESLA-3 tide gauge stations with at least 90 percent of data in the considered period. As astronomical tides are removed from the modeled and observed water levels to yield the surge component. The file also contains monthly relative water levels and monthly geocentric water levels from 1900-2015 from the HCC dataset.</p><h4>Variables:</h4><ul><li><i>observed_99pctl_surge_level_anomaly</i> -- 99th percentile of daily maximum surge level anomalies from 2011-2015</li><li><i>hcc_99pctl_surge_level_anomaly -- </i>HCC surge level anomalies at the same time steps as <i>observed_99pctl_surge_level_anomaly</i></li><li><i>hcc_counterfactual_99pctl_surge_level_anomaly</i> -- HCC counterfactual surge levels at the same time steps as <i>observed_99pctl_surge_level_anomaly</i></li><li><i>hcc_water_level_monthly</i> – Monthly relative water level from 1900-2015</li><li><i>hcc_geocentric_water_level_monthly</i> – Monthly geocentric water level from 1900-2015</li></ul><h3>hcc_hr_psmsl_water_level_monthly_1900_2015.nc</h3><p>Monthly water levels at 663 PSMSL tide gauge stations of at least 20 year length and with at least 30 percent data coverage in the 1993-2012 period. The file contains data from the HCC, HR and PSMSL datasets. To align PSMSL and HR with HCC, the 1993-2012 average from PSMSL and HR is removed from each of those datasets respectively and the 1993-2012 average of HCC is added. The average is calculated only over all time steps where the associated observational record has valid data.</p><h4>Variables:</h4><ul><li><i>hcc_water_level_monthly</i> – Monthly relative water level from the HCC dataset</li><li><i>hr_aligned_water_level_monthly</i> -- Monthly relative water level from the HR dataset, aligned with <i>hcc_water_level_monthly</i></li><li><i>psmsl_aligned_water_level_monthly</i> -- Monthly relative water level from the PSMSL database, aligned with <i>hcc_water_level_monthly</i></li></ul><h3>hcc_codec_hr_gesla3_water_level_hourly_monthly_1979_2015.nc</h3><p>Hourly water levels at 1040 GESLA-3 tide gauge stations which have at least 30 percent of valid observations between 1979 and 2015. The file contains data from the HCC, CoDEC, HR and GESLA-3 datasets. The different records are not vertically aligned.</p><h4>Variables:</h4><ul><li><i>gesla3_water_level_hourly</i> -- Hourly relative water level from the GESLA3 database</li><li><i>hcc_water_level_hourly</i> -- Hourly relative water level from the HCC dataset</li><li><i>codec_water_level_hourly</i> -- Hourly relative water level from the CoDEC dataset</li><li><i>hr_water_level_monthly</i> -- Monthly relative water level from the HR dataset</li></ul><h3> </h3><h3>hcc_gesla3_water_level_hourly_2011_2015.nc</h3><p>Water levels from the HCC and GESLA-3 datasets, only for tide gauge stations with a complete record in the period 2011-2015 and associated HCC grid points.</p><h4>Variables:</h4><ul><li><i>gesla3_water_level_hourly</i> -- Hourly relative water level from the GESLA3 database</li><li><i>hcc_water_level_hourly</i> -- Hourly relative water level from the HCC dataset</li></ul><h3>slr_ds_psmsl_selected.nc</h3><p>Linear estimates of relative sea level rise from 1900 to 2015. Data is provided at 663 PSMSL tide gauge stations of at least 20 year length and with at least 30 percent data coverage in the 1993-2012 period. Estimates are calculated for the HCC, HR and PSMSL datasets.</p><h4>Variables:</h4><ul><li><i>psmsl_rslr, psmsl_rslr_lower, psmsl_rslr_upper</i> -- Relative sea level rise for PSMSL with lower and upper bounds for a 95 percent confidence interval</li><li><i>hcc_long_rslr, hcc_long_rslr_lower, hcc_long_rslr_upper </i>-- Relative sea level rise for HCC with lower and upper bounds for a 95 percent confidence interval</li><li><i>hr_rslr, hr_rslr_lower, hr_rslr_upper</i> -- Relative sea level rise for HR with lower and upper bounds for a 95 percent confidence interval</li></ul><h3>reg_mask_xr.nc</h3><p>Split of the world into 7 ocean basins: Indian Ocean - South Pacific, Northwest Pacific, East Pacific, South Atlantic, Subtropical North Atlantic, Subpolar North Atlantic West and Subpolar North Atlantic East.</p><h4>Variables:</h4><p><i>reg_mask</i> – Float value, representing the ocean basins</p><p> </p>
Attributing decadal climate variability in coastal sea-level trends
<p>The data produced from analysis to be published in Ocean Science Discussions, paper entitled "Attributing decadal climate variability in coastal sea-level trends". NetCDF contains the following sets of fields:</p> <p>1. Indexing: An <em>index</em> and location (<em>lat, lon</em>) of the coastal grid cells, a locator index attributing each cell to Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Ocean basin, a <em>time</em> (decimal year) index.</p> <p>2. NEMO model trends (<em>nemo_<component>_trend</em>): Rolling decadal trends at each coastal grid cell from the NEMO model run for steric, manometric (dynamic) and GRD. The sum of these components gives the equivalent to absolute sea level trend. </p> <p>3. Climate and oceanographic mode indices: The rolling decadal trends in climate indices and the AMOC index calculated from the AMOC model (<em>ci_trend</em>) and their names (<em>ci_index</em>).</p> <p>4. Empirical Orthogonal Function spatial pattern (<em>eof_<basin>_<component>_D</em>) and Principal Component time series (<em>eof_<basin>_<component>_PC</em>)<em> </em>of the NEMO model trends.</p> <p>5. Coefficient of linear regression between PC and climate indices (<em>recon_<basin>_<component>_beta</em>) and the rolling trend time series at each grid cell from the reconstruction, sum{ci_trend*beta} (<em>recon_<basin>_<component>_trend</em>).</p> <p>In 4 and 5, the indices are given by basin. The total coastline is a concatenation of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian basin data in that order. The absolute SSH is given by the sum of components. i.e. the SSH for all coastal cells in order <em>index</em>:</p> <p>recon_sum_trend([index(Atlantic_index); index(Pacific_index); index(Indian_index)] = ...</p> <p> [recon_Atlantic_manometric_trend+recon_Atlantic_steric_trend+recon_Atlantic_grd_trend; ...</p> <p> recon_Pacific_manometric_trend+recon_Pacific_steric_trend+recon_Pacific_grd_trend; ...</p> <p> recon_Indian_manometric_trend+recon_Indian_steric_trend+recon_Indian_grd_trend]</p>
SIA-BRA: The carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios of animals of Brazilian biomes and coastal marine areas
<p>SIA-BRA is a compilation of C and N stable isotope ratios of terrestrial and aquatic animals sampled in Brazilian biomes and coastal-marine areas.</p> <p>Version 1.0 contains isotopic data of c. 21,804 non-captive wildlife specimens, excluding livestock production or laboratory<br> experiments. They were 13,881 vertebrates and 7,923 invertebrates. There are 11 phyla, with a clear dominance of Chordata (64%) and Arthropoda (29%), 36 classes, 154 orders, 473 families, 894 genera and 1,157 species.</p> <p>They were divided into the following habitats: terrestrial (30% of the total), freshwater (27%), oceanic (40%)<br> and estuarine (4%) (see <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13449">https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13449</a>)</p> <p>Software format: Data are supplied as delimited text files (.csv).</p>
Experimental data for 'Scaling laws for coastal overwash morphology'
<p>This dataset contains the experimental data described in Lazarus, ED (2016) Scaling laws for coastal overwash morphology, <em>Geophysical Research Letters</em>, 43, 12113–12119, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL071213">https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL071213</a>.</p> <p>The physical experiments that produced these data were conducted at St Anthony Falls Laboratory (University of Minnesota, USA) in December 2014. The experiments were conducted in a 3 x 5 x 0.6 m tank filled with well-sorted coarse river sand. The tank and the experimental trials are detailed in Text S1 of the Supporting Information for Lazarus (2016): <a href="https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/downloadSupplement?doi=10.1002%2F2016GL071213&file=grl55284-sup-0001-SI.pdf">https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/downloadSupplement?doi=10.1002%2F2016GL071213&file=grl55284-sup-0001-SI.pdf</a></p> <p>This dataset consists of two *.csv files:</p> <ul> <li>'...THROATS.csv' – morphometric data for <strong>erosional</strong> (throat) features in the experimental barrier</li> <li>'...WASHOVER.csv' – morphometric data for <strong>depositional</strong> (washover) features on the back-barrier floodplain</li> </ul> <p>Both files have the same general column headings: feature width (in the alongshore dimension) [m], feature length (in the cross-shore dimension) [m], feature area [m<sup>2</sup>], feature volume [m<sup>3</sup>], alongshore spacing (centroid-to-centroid distance to neighbouring feature) [m], and real alongshore position [m].</p> <p>All features were formed along an initially geometrically uniform (topographically homogenous) trapezoidal barrier under inundation-type forcing (denoted in 'forcing' column). These data report the compiled results of three experimental trials (denoted in 'trial' column).</p> <p>Note that these data are also available as part of the Supporting Information for Lazarus (2016), but the format in which they were originally uploaded is not conducive to straightforward integration into open-source analysis. Publishing them here, in this tidier format, is an effort to rectify that.</p>
Modelling NBSs for coastal erosion and marine flooding: the Emilia-Romagna case studies
<p>The study was conducted in the context of the OPEn-air laboRAtories for Nature baseD solUtions to Manage environmental risks (OPERANDUM) project which is an H2020 project which aims at providing tools and methodologies for the assessment of NBS efficiency around the world. Two NBs were tested via modelling simulations on the Bellocchio Beach at Lido di Spina (Italy) located in the northern part of the Emilia-Romagna coast (northern Adriatic Sea): an artificial dune built with natural materials and a marine seagrass meadow.</p> <p>The artificial dune is an engineered structure that will mimic the functioning of natural dunes. Its aims are reducing both natural dune erosion and flooding in adjacent coastal lowlands. It consists of a barrier between the sea and land, in a similar way to a seawall. Unlike the latter, the NBS are ‘dynamic’, i.e. the dune/beach system interacts a great deal and is constantly undergoing small adjustments in response to changes in wind and wave climate or sea level. Its construction involves the placement of sediment from dredged sources on the beach and it will be reinforced with a structure composed of biodegradable material. Different typologies of experimental solutions are foreseen.</p> <p>The second NBS consists of an alongshore seagrass belt located in front of the coastal area. It was investigated as a potential mechanism for wave amplitude reduction. Among the few species that can live in the northern Adriatic Sea, Zostera Marina was chosen due to its ability to live in a marine environment influenced by freshwaters. A more detailed description can be found in (Pillai et al., 2021).</p> <p>The numerical model chain, specifically developed for the study, consists of an Ocean Circulation model, so-called SHYFEM (Umgiesser et al., 2004), a wave model, so-called WWIII (Alves and Ardhuin, 2016), and a morphological model, so-called XBeach (Roelvink et al., 2009). Ten years of XBeach simulations have been executed to simulate the morphological impacts on the coastal strip for the present (2010-19) and future climate (2040-49). For each 10 years period, four scenarios were simulated: the baseline scenario without NBS (baseline_run), the scenario with the dune (dune_run), the scenario with the seagrass effect (seagrass_run) and the scenario with the two NBS integration (dune_seagrass_run).XBeach was forced with sea level and wave time series predicted by the SHYFEM and WWIII models respectively.</p> <p>The model domain consists in a curvilinear structured grid of about 3.2 km (longshore) x 2.8 km (cross-shore) covering the coastal stretch of Bellocchio beach at Lido di Spina (Italy) and extends seaward up to about 10 m depth.</p> <p>The performance of the NBSs and their impact on coastal erosion and marine flooding were investigated. For both present and future scenarios (201-2019 and 2040-2049), the reduction in wave intensity obtained with the seagrass provided greater benefits in terms of erosion mitigation and flood reduction. The analysis highlighted the limited scale of the dune intervention, in particular under present conditions, highlighting that the longer the artificial dune implemented, the larger the beach and dune area protected. For the future scenarios, the results are still significant and even small projects are expected to help in mitigating coastal erosion and marine flooding.</p> <p>For long-period simulations, no relevant improvements in reducing beach erosion was observed when the artificial dune was combined with the seagrass meadows with respect to the seagrass effects only. Instead, a dominant increase in sea levels will probably highlight the dune functions in hindering the marine ingression into the lagoon area behind and the consequent sediment redistribution.</p> <p>This dataset consists of XBeach model results, mainly:</p> <ul> <li>Morphological evolution of the coastal bottom at Bellocchio beach (Lido di Spina, Italy) in terms of initial and final bed levels, for the current (201-2019) and the future (2040-2049) scenarios. Results are available for the four NBS scenarios described above (and detailed in the Presentation.pdf)</li> <li>Maximum flood depth, defined as the non-simultaneous maximum water depth on the beach domain of Bellocchio (Lido di Spina, Italy) for the current (201-2019) and the future (2040-2049) scenarios. Results are available for the four NBS scenarios described above (and detailed in the Presentation.pdf) </li> <li>Erosion-deposition maps for the current (201-2019) and the future (2040-2049) scenarios. Results are available for the four NBS scenarios described above (and detailed in the Presentation.pdf).</li> </ul>
Global database of Coastal Characteristics (GCC)
<p>This dataset present a Global database of Coastal Characteristics (GCC) with 80 indicators spanning the</p> <ul> <li>geophysical,</li> <li>hydrometeorological and</li> <li>socioeconomic</li> </ul> <p>environment, at a high alongshore resolution of 1 km and provided at ~730,000 points along the global ice-free coastline. The latest freely available global datasets and a global high-resolution transect system are used to derive these indicators.</p> <p>The geophysical indicators include coastal slopes and elevation maxima, land-use, presence of vegetation or sandy beaches.The hydro-meteorological indicators involve water level, wave conditions and meteorological conditions (rain and temperature). Additionally, the socioeconomic indices are related to population, GDP and presence of critical infrastructure (roads, railways, ports and airports).</p> <p>The indicators are provided in three comma-separated values (CSV) files, one for each group:</p> <ul> <li>GCC_geophysical.csv</li> <li>GCC_hydrometeorological.csv</li> <li>GCC_socioeconomic.csv</li> </ul> <p>Information for each individual indicator, including its name, long name (description), units and type, are provided in the meta_data.yml file.</p>
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