Water level and velocity measurements from the 2012 University of Western Australia Fringing Reef Experiment (UWAFRE)

The following steps were used in development of the physical model. For an in-depth discussion of processing, see Buckley and others (2018; doi: 10.1029/2018JC013933). 1. A plywood reef structure was constructed in the 55-m long Eastern Scheldt Flume at Deltares, in the Netherlands. The reef profile is based on a typical fringing reef profile with a 1:5 fore reef slope, a 14 m horizontal reef flat (500 m in field (prototype) scale with a 1:36 geometric scaling factor), and a 1:12 sloped beach. 2. Two sets of 16 runs were conducted. The first set of runs used a smooth plywood bottom to minimize the role of bottom roughness. In the second set of runs, a staggered array of 1.8 cm (65 cm in field scale) concrete cubes were affixed to the plywood bottom on the fore reef slope and reef flat to replicate the bottom roughness characteristics of a coral reef. 3. Water levels (18 locations with resistance-type gauges) and horizontal velocities (6 locations with electromagnetic current meters) were measured synchronously at 40 Hz, with the highest spatial density of measurements in the surf zone region near the reef crest at x = 0 m. The total duration of runs was 2520 s, with the first 480 s removed from statistical analysis to allow for wave setup on the reef flat to fully develop. 4. Runup time series were measured using an array of resistance-type gauges with a 0.025 m spacing along the beach slope for the first 1.0 m and a 0.05 m spacing for the remaining 1.2 m 5. Water level and velocity measurements used in the analysis by Buckley and others (2018; doi: 10.1029/2018JC013933) are included as .csv files in this data release

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