TY - DATA T1 - Data underlying the publication: "Using salt marshes for coastal protection: effective but hard to get where needed most" PY - 2023/03/31 AU - B. (Beatriz) Marin Diaz AU - Daphne van der Wal AU - Leon Kaptein AU - Pol Martinez-Garcia AU - Christopher H. Lashley AU - Kornelis de Jong AU - Jan Willem Nieuwenhuis AU - L.L. (Laura) Govers AU - Han Olff AU - T.J. (Tjeerd) Bouma UR - DO - 10.4121/872ad544-c7c7-41c2-8307-3e353c9befd2.v1 KW - wave run up KW - overtopping KW - marsh KW - marsh development KW - bathymetry KW - wave attenuation KW - wave height KW - flotsam KW - tidal flats KW - coastal protection N2 - <p>This dataset contains the data obtained and utilized for the manuscript: Using salt marshes for coastal protection: effective but hard to get where needed most.</p><p><br></p><p>This study analyzed 20 years of vegetation and bathymetry maps along the Dutch Wadden Sea coast in combination with detailed process-based measurements at 5 locations during three years in order to understand where salt marshes form and what features determine their contribution to coastal protection value.</p><p><br></p><p>The field data includes wave data collected with OSSI wave loggers in marshes and mudflats fronting dikes, beach wrack elevation points on the dikes after storms, vegetation properties and marsh&mudflat soil elevation.</p> ER -