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Data from: Observations of surface cobbles at two southern California beaches

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Data from: Observations of surface cobbles at two southern California beaches

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1 digital object.

Cite This Work

Matsumoto, Hironori; Young, Adam P.; Guza, Robert T. (2019). Data from: Observations of surface cobbles at two southern California beaches. UC San Diego Library Digital Collections. https://doi.org/10.6075/J0FB518T

Description

Beach elevations were surveyed quarterly between January 2008 and July 2018 on cross-shore transects from the back beach to about 8 m water depth. Subaerial and submarine portions of the transects were surveyed with Global Positioning System (GPS) equipped all-terrain vehicle (ATV), and dolly or Jet Ski respectively. The subaerial portions were classified as sand, cobble, or bedrock using manual identification and a recording switch during the ATV surveys. Ground type was not identified in dolly or Jet Ski surveys.

Scope And Content

Each folder contains 1. matlab file, and 2. processed data (.mat file). When running the matlab file on Matlab, it produces figure/s showing cobble distributions and their correlations with wave conditions, and back beach cobble morphology.

Date Collected
  • 2008 to 2018
Date Issued
  • 2019
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Technical Details

This analysis used Matlab2017a.The processed data needs to be placed in the same folder as the matlab file.

Funding

This study was funded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (W912HZ-14-2-0025) and the California Department of Parks and Recreation, Natural Resources Division Oceanography Program (C1370032).

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Language
  • English
Identifier

Identifier: Adam P. Young: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7985-9528

Identifier: Hironori Matsumoto: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4637-7781

Identifier: R. T. Guza: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8834-5465

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