An 8-year period from March 1997 to February 2005 of modeled combined-flow bed shear stress data for the entire Australian continental shelf. The dataset from the Australian Ocean Data Network quantifies seabed exposure using three regionalization methods based on magnitude and frequency of stress events. It relates these exposure levels to physical sediment properties and water depth.
Use Cases
- Regionalizing seabed exposure based on the spectral characteristics of stress events.
- Classifying oceanographic exposure levels based on the shape of the probability distribution function.
- Assessing the balance between the work done by stress on the seabed and its frequency of occurrence.
- Correlating exposure regions with physical sediment properties like mean grain size and bulk carbonate content.
- Distinguishing between regions dominated by high-frequency (diurnal/semi-diurnal) and low-frequency (synoptic/annual) events.
Strengths
- Covers the entire Australian continental shelf.
- Provides data for an 8-year period (March 1997-February 2005).
- Uses three distinct regionalization methods for exposure classification.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Last updated 2026-04-16 16:07:18.135209; freshness should be verified.
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network
- Collection Method
- Output from a suite of numerical models predicting oceanic processes.
- Time Range
- March 1997 - February 2005
- Geography
- Australian continental shelf