A multi-decade dataset of monthly beach profile surveys and inshore wave forcing at Narrabeen, Australia.

ABSTRACT: Long-term observational datasets that record and quantify variability, changes and trends in beach morphology at sandy coastlines together with the accompanying wave climate are rare. A monthly beach profile survey program commenced in April 1976 at Narrabeen located on Sydney's Northern Beaches in southeast Australia is one of just a handful of sites worldwide where on-going and uninterrupted beach monitoring now spans multiple decades. With the Narrabeen survey program reaching its 40-year milestone in April 2016, it is timely that free and unrestricted use of these data be facilitated to support the next advances in beach erosion-recovery modelling. The archived dataset detailed here includes the monthly subaerial profiles, available bathymetry for each survey transect extending seaward

SUBMITTER: Turner IL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4828941 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature