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Extent

1 digital object.

Description

This dataset contains research data used to investigate pore-water flow through a coastal gravel berm composed of layered sediments at South Carlsbad State Beach, California. The dataset includes pressure time-series measurements and gridded/individual LiDAR point clouds provided as MATLAB data files, MATLAB scripts for visualizing the pressure and LiDAR data, and an MP4 movie file. The data were collected during a field experiment in which a gravel berm with layered sediments was constructed and in situ pressure gauges were buried within the sediment layers. As the tide rose, waves began to run up and down the berm, eventually overtopping and flattening the structure.

Date Collected

• 2025-06-18

Date Issued

• 2026

Author

• Matsumoto, Hironori

Contributors

• Elgar, Steve
• Raubenheimer, Britt
• Young, Adam P.

Funding

Funding was provided by the California Department of Parks and Recreation, the U.S. National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Geographic

• South Carlsbad State Beach (Carlsbad, California)

Topics

• Domain: Earth sciences
• Exfiltration (hydrology)
• Gravel berm
• Infiltration (hydrology)
• Sediment layering
• Subsurface pore-water flow
• Swash
• Wave overtopping

Language

• English

Identifier

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

Identifier: Britt Raubenheimer: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3741-4536

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

Identifier: Steve Elgar: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5034-7027

Related Resources

Primary associated publication

• Matsumoto, H., Raubenheimer, B., Elgar, S., & Young, A. P. Pore-water flow through coastal gravel berms with layered sediments. Geophysical Research Letters. Under review.

Collection image

• Image credit: Hironori Matsumoto. "Constructed gravel berm."