TES Washover: Morphometry and Laser-Scan Data from Coastal Deposition Experiments

Twenty-two experimental trials conducted at the Total Environment Simulator (TES) at the University of Hull generated this dataset. It contains tabular morphometric measurements and terrestrial laser-scan point clouds of simulated washover deposits, used to study coastal geomorphic processes. The data supports research on how forcing modes like inundation or wave-driven flow influence deposit characteristics.

Use Cases

• Analyzing relationships between forcing mode and deposit dimensions based on columns like throat width and deposit volume.
• Calibrating or validating coastal deposition models using the detailed terrestrial laser-scan point clouds.
• Studying the morphometric variability of washover deposits across 22 controlled experimental trials.
• Investigating the built fraction metric as an indicator of depositional efficiency.

Strengths

• Includes data from 22 distinct experimental trials, providing a basis for statistical analysis.
• Combines derived tabular metrics with raw terrestrial laser-scan point clouds, allowing for multi-scale analysis.
• Associated with a detailed table of experimental conditions for each trial, providing context for the morphometric results.

Limitations

• Key metadata such as row count, file size, and specific last update date are unknown across all sources.
• The description references two different filenames for the table of experimental conditions ('TES_parameters_trial_log_full_v2.pdf' and 'TES_parameters_trial_log.pdf'), indicating potential versioning or documentation inconsistency.

Provenance

Source

Physical experiments conducted at the Total Environment Simulator (TES), University of Hull, by Hannah Williams (University of Southampton).

Collection Method

Data was gathered from controlled physical simulations of washover deposition, with morphometry measured from terrestrial laser scans.

Geography

Laboratory setting at the University of Hull, UK.