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Coastal overtopping data from the CreamT project, August 2020 to August 2023

The CreamT project converted the prototype WireWall wave overtopping field measurement system into a ruggedised monitoring system between August 2020 and August 2023. The system was deployed for up to a year in two high-energy coastal environments along the Southwest coast, UK (Dawlish and Penzance). The system was designed to have a 3-month maintenance interval and was programmed to measure overtopping condition ±3hrs either side of predicted high tide. The wave-by-wave overtopping data were telemetered to the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) every 10 minutes. At the time of the project, the coastal structures at these sites comprised a vertical sea wall with small return lip or curve at the top. Both sea walls were fronted by a beach. During the project period the Dawlish beach levels exposed a concreate toe at the base of the wall. In Penzance, the beach covered the sea wall toe and was higher in the southwest monitoring location. The system was designed at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and had previously been validated in HR Wallingford’s flume facility and field tested with Sefton Council ( https://www.channelcoast.org/northwest/). During CreamT, three different system configurations were deployed: full WireWall systems each with an array of six capacitance sensors; smaller WireWand systems with two capacitance sensors mounted on a single pole to detect overtopping at hazard hotspots; and a WaveWell using a single sensor on the face of the sea wall. Six datasets are available from the CreamT project. These contain delayed mode data from: 1) a WireWall deployed at the crest of the sea wall in Dawlish; 2) a WireWand deployed at the wall just seaward of the railway line in Dawlish; 3) a WireWand deployed at the fence just inland of the railway line in Dawlish; 4) a WaveWell deployed on the face of the sea wall in Dawlish; 5) a WireWall deployed at the crest of the sea wall in Penzance near Queen’s Hotel, and; 6) a WireWall deployed at the crest of the sea wall in Penzance near the Lidal store at Wherrytown. The datasets in Dawlish provide information about the inland distribution of overtopping, and the two datasets in Penzance provide information about the alongshore variability in overtopping hazard. These data can be used alongside the regional monitoring data available from the Southwest Regional Monitoring Programme to investigate the drivers of wave overtopping. All these data can be visualised in a hazard dashboard developed by the BODC and hosted on JASMIN, https://coastalhazards.app.noc.ac.uk/. This project was delivered by the National Oceanography Centre in collaboration with BODC and the University of Plymouth under NERC Grant References NE/V002538/1 and NE/V002589/1. Project partners were Network Rail, Southwest Regional Monitoring Programme, Environment Agency and Channel Coastal Observatory .

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British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048CreamT

Date (Publication)
2025-02-11
Date (Creation)
2024-02-26
Date (Revision)
2024-04-12
Citation identifier
http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED7340
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

National Oceanography Centre (Southampton)

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enquiries@noc.ac.uk

Owner

National Oceanography Centre (Southampton)

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Originator

National Oceanography Centre (Liverpool)

Unknown

enquiries@noc.ac.uk

Owner

National Oceanography Centre (Liverpool)

Unknown

enquiries@noc.ac.uk

Originator

British Oceanographic Data Centre

enquiries@bodc.ac.uk

Custodian

British Oceanographic Data Centre

enquiries@bodc.ac.uk

Distributor
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

MEDIN metadata record availability

  • Natural Environment Research Council Designated Data Centres
  • Marine Environmental Data and Information Network
  • data.gov.uk

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Oceanographic geographical features

SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages

  • unknown

SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary

  • Other wave statistics
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Other restrictions
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No limitations apply
Other constraints

Data are freely available

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Other restrictions
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No conditions apply

Spatial representation type
Text, table
Language
English
Topic category
  • Oceans
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Geographic identifier
English Channel

SeaVoX water bodies 2024-12-11 revision

Geographic identifier
Northeast Atlantic Ocean (40W)

SeaVoX water bodies 2024-12-11 revision

Begin date
2020-08-03
End date
2023-08-03
Unique resource identifier
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
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Text or Plaintext
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/published_data_library/catalogue/10.5285/12ed58d6-7bb8-3eae-e063-6c86abc0689c/

Published dataset - doi:10.5285/12ed58d6-7bb8-3eae-e063-6c86abc0689c

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Title

COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation

BODC protocols are based on the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) model enabling BODC to iterate towards compliance with the on-going evolution and development of community requirements including FAIR (Findable,Accessible,Interoperable,Reusable), TRUST (Transparency, Responsibility, User community, Sustainability, Technology) and CARE (Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, Ethics). Data managers quality assure submissions and assemble the metadata necessary for curation. Submissions (as received) are placed in a long-term accession and stored in triplicate across multiple sites. Appropriate data are transferred into a standard internal format with source variable names mapped to controlled vocabularies, documentation assembled, and metadata loaded into BODC databases. Access to these data is through direct request, the BODC website and through partner repositories such as SeaDataNet. Access control is attained by assigning a data policy to each set of data and this policy is used to administer access when data are requested. Discovery metadata is aligned with EU INSPIRE (through MEDIN) and SeaDataNet community standards. Data are converted to open community formats including Ocean Data View ASCII and SeaDataNet NetCDF, with data described using terms from the NERC vocabulary server. BODC submission agreements are documented on the BODC website and customer service is assured with a dedicated requests team that serve data following local regulations including General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2018 and Environmental Information Regulations (EIR) 2004.

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Yes
Statement

This dataset was created by the organisations with the "originator" role in this metadata record following their in-house data processing and quality control procedures. The data were then provided to the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) for long-term archive and data publication in the BODC Published Data Library.

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e1bac35f87ee516e8e9d093407f029c4 XML
Metadata language
English
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2025-02-11T15:11:44
Metadata standard name
MEDIN
Metadata standard version

3.1.2

Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

National Oceanography Centre (Southampton)

Jennifer Brown

enquiries@noc.ac.uk

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