DynaRev - Dynamic Coastal Protection: Resilience of Dynamic Revetments Under Sea Level Rise

This dataset contains processed data from the DynaRev experiments carried out in the Large Wave Flume (Grosser Wellenkanal, GWK) from 14-08-2017 to 29-09-2017 as a Transnational Access project within the EU funded project HYDRALAB+ (654110). The dataset provided under this DOI includes the post-processed data detailed in the article submitted to Scientific Data titled "High-resolution, prototype-scale laboratory measurements of nearshore wave processes and morphological evolution of a sandy beach with and without a dynamic cobble berm revetment".

The overall aim of this project was to construct a prototype-scale beach and investigate the response of the beach to a rising sea level and storms with and without a cobble berm dynamic revetment structure (a gravel or shingle ridge placed around the wave runup limit). The response of two beach configurations was investigated under erosive wave conditions (Hs=0.8m, Tp=6.0s) and a total sea-level rise, SLR = 0.4 m:

i) an unmodified sand beach with an initially plane slope of 1:15, and
ii) a natural beach profile with a dynamic revetment installed at the location of the natural berm before imposing SLR.

SLR was imposed in 4 steps of 0.1 m with an initial water depth of 4.5 m above the flume base. Each phase ran for a total of 58 hours, after which resilience testing under storm waves and accretive conditions was undertaken for a further 12 hours in each case.

The changing profile of the sand beach and revetment was monitored throughout the experiments using a traditional profiler and a LiDAR array. Additional hydrodynamic measurements were obtained at the location of the offshore sandbar to investigate the process of bar formation and migration with SLR.