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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2023-230
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2023-230
29 Jun 2023
 | 29 Jun 2023
Status: a revised version of this preprint was accepted for the journal ESSD and is expected to appear here in due course.

SCShores: A comprehensive shoreline dataset of Spanish sandy beaches from a citizen-science monitoring program

Rita González-Villanueva, Jesús Soriano-González, Irene Alejo, Francisco Criado-Sudau, Theocharis Plomaritis, Àngels Fernàndez-Mora, Javier Benavente, Laura Del Río, Miguel Ángel Nombela, and Elena Sánchez-García

Abstract. Sandy beaches are ever-changing environments, as they experience constant reshaping due to the external forces of tides, waves, and winds. The shoreline position, which marks the boundary between water and sand, holds great significance in the fields of coastal geomorphology, coastal engineering, and coastal management. It is crucial to understand how beaches evolve over time, but high-resolution shoreline datasets are scarce, and establishing monitoring programs can be costly. To address this, we present a new dataset of shorelines for five Spanish sandy beaches, located in contrasting environments, derived from the CoastSnap citizen-science shoreline monitoring program. The use of citizen science is an increasingly strong current within environmental projects that allows both community awareness and the collection of large amounts of data that are otherwise difficult to obtain. This dataset includes a total of 1721 individual shorelines composed of points every 3 m-spaced points alongshore, accompanied by additional attributes, such as elevation value and acquisition date, allowing for easy comparisons. Our dataset offers a unique perspective on how citizen science can provide reliable datasets that are useful for management and geomorphological studies. The shoreline dataset, along with relevant metadata, is available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8056415 (González-Villanueva et al., 2023b).

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Comment types: AC – author | RC – referee | CC – community | EC – editor | CEC – chief editor | : Report abuse
  • RC1: 'Comment on essd-2023-230', Anonymous Referee #1, 19 Aug 2023
    • AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Rita Gonzalez Villanueva, 25 Aug 2023
  • RC2: 'Comment on essd-2023-230', Anonymous Referee #2, 28 Aug 2023
    • AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Rita Gonzalez Villanueva, 28 Aug 2023

Status: closed

Comment types: AC – author | RC – referee | CC – community | EC – editor | CEC – chief editor | : Report abuse
  • RC1: 'Comment on essd-2023-230', Anonymous Referee #1, 19 Aug 2023
    • AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Rita Gonzalez Villanueva, 25 Aug 2023
  • RC2: 'Comment on essd-2023-230', Anonymous Referee #2, 28 Aug 2023
    • AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Rita Gonzalez Villanueva, 28 Aug 2023

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SCShores: time-series of shorelines from Spanish Sandy beaches from citizen-science monitoring program. Rita González-Villanueva, Elena Sánchez-García, & Jesús Soriano-González https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8056415

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Sandy beaches, shaped by tides, waves, and winds, constantly change. Studying these changes is crucial for coastal management, but obtaining detailed shoreline data is difficult and costly. Our paper introduces a unique dataset of shorelines from five Spanish beaches collected through the CoastSnap citizen-science program. With 1721 shorelines, our dataset provides valuable information for coastal studies.