Synchronized high-resolution bed-level change and biophysical data from 10 marsh–mudflat sites in northwestern Europe

Hu, Zhan; Willemsen, Pim W. J. M.; Borsje, Bas W.; Wang, Chen; Wang, Heng; van der Wal, Daphne; Zhu, Zhenchang; Oteman, Bas; Vuik, Vincent; Evans, Ben; Möller, Iris; Belliard, Jean-Philippe; Van Braeckel, Alexander; Temmerman, Stijn; Bouma, Tjeerd J.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-405-2021

Articles | Volume 13, issue 2

Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 405–416, 2021

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-405-2021

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Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 405–416, 2021

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-405-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 2

Data description paper 12 Feb 2021

Data description paper | 12 Feb 2021

Synchronized high-resolution bed-level change and biophysical data from 10 marsh–mudflat sites in northwestern Europe

Zhan Hu et al.

Data sets

High resolution bed level change and synchronized biophysical data from 10 tidal flats in northwestern Europe Zhan Hu, Pim W. J. M. Willemsen, Bas W. Borsje, Chen Wang, Heng Wang, Daphne van der Wal, Zhenchang Zhu, Bas Oteman, Vincent Vuik, Ben Evans, Iris Möller, Jean-Philippe Belliard, Alexander Van Braeckel, Stijn Temmerman, and Tjeerd J. Bouma https://doi.org/10.4121/uuid:4830dbc2-84b8-46f9-99a3-90f01ab5b923

Short summary

Erosion and accretion processes govern the ecogeomorphic evolution of intertidal (salt marsh and tidal flat) ecosystems and hence substantially affect their valuable ecosystem services. By applying a novel sensor, we obtained unique high-resolution daily bed-level change datasets from 10 marsh–mudflat sites in northwestern Europe. This dataset has revealed diverse spatial bed-level change patterns over daily to seasonal scales, which are valuable to theoretical and model development.