Data from: A multi-decade dataset of monthly beach profile surveys and inshore wave forcing at Narrabeen, Australia
Data files
Mar 24, 2017 version files 98.32 MB
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Narrabeen_Astronomical_Tide.csv
29.47 MB
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Narrabeen_Bathymetry.csv
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Narrabeen_Inshore_Waves.csv
64.49 MB
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Narrabeen_Profiles.csv
3.27 MB
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README_for_Narrabeen_Astronomical_Tide.pdf
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README_for_Narrabeen_Bathymetry.pdf
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README_for_Narrabeen_Inshore_Waves.pdf
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README_for_Narrabeen_Profiles.pdf
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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 seawards to 20 m water depth, and time-series of ocean astronomical tide and inshore wave forcing at 10 m water depths, the latter corresponding to the location of individual survey transects. In addition, on-going access to the results of the continuing monthly survey program is described.