BEWARE database: A Bayesian-based system to assess wave-driven flooding hazards on coral reef-lined coasts

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A process-based wave-resolving hydrodynamic model (XBeach Non-Hydrostatic, ‘XBNH’) was used to create a large synthetic database for use in a “Bayesian Estimator for Wave Attack in Reef Environments” (BEWARE), relating incident hydrodynamics and coral reef geomorphology to coastal flooding hazards on reef-lined coasts. Building on previous work, BEWARE improves system understanding of reef hydrodynamics by examining the intrinsic reef and extrinsic forcing factors controlling runup and flooding on reef-lined coasts. The Bayesian estimator has high predictive skill for the XBNH model outputs that are flooding indicators, and was validated for a number of available field cases. BEWARE is a potentially powerful tool for use in early warning systems or risk assessment studies, and can be used to make projections about how wave-induced flooding on coral reef-lined coasts may change due to climate change. These data accompany the following publication: Pearson, S.G., Storlazzi, C.D., van Dongeren, A.R., Tissier, M.F.S., and Reniers, A.J.H.M., 2017, A Bayesian-based system to assess wave-driven flooding hazards on coral reef-lined coasts: Journal of Geophysical Research—Oceans, https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JC013204.

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Name Format Description Link
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/F7T43S20
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.59c452c3e4b017cf313bea5c.xml

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  • coastal-processes
  • coral-reefs
  • oceans
  • pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center
  • usgs-59c452c3e4b017cf313bea5c
  • water-column-features
  • cmgp
  • u-s-geological-survey
  • waves
  • flooding
  • geoscientificinformation
  • pcmsc
  • coastal-and-marine-geology-program
  • usgs
  • hazards
  • reef
  • water-level
  • numerical-modeling

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