title: A multi-decade dataset of monthly beach profile surveys and inshore wave forcing at Narrabeen, Australia.
abstract: Long-term observational datasets that record and quantify variability, changes and trends in beach morphology at sandy coastlines together with the accompanying wave climate are rare. A monthly beach profile survey program commenced in April 1976 at Narrabeen located on Sydney's Northern Beaches in southeast Australia is one of just a handful of sites worldwide where on-going and uninterrupted beach monitoring now spans multiple decades. With the Narrabeen survey program reaching its 40-year milestone in April 2016, it is timely that free and unrestricted use of these data be facilitated to support the next advances in beach erosion-recovery modelling. The archived dataset detailed here includes the monthly subaerial profiles, available bathymetry for each survey transect extending seawards to 20 m water depth, and time-series of ocean astronomical tide and inshore wave forcing at 10 m water depths, the latter corresponding to the location of individual survey transects. In addition, on-going access to the results of the continuing monthly survey program is described.
authors.affiliation: Water Research Laboratory, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNSW Australia, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.
authors.forename: Ian L
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9884-6917
authors.initials: IL
authors.lastname: Turner
authors.affiliation: Water Research Laboratory, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNSW Australia, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.
authors.forename: Mitchell D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Harley
authors.affiliation: School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.
authors.forename: Andrew D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Short
authors.affiliation: Water Research Laboratory, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNSW Australia, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.
authors.forename: Joshua A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Simmons
authors.affiliation: Water Research Laboratory, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNSW Australia, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.
authors.forename: Melissa A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Bracs
authors.affiliation: Water Research Laboratory, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNSW Australia, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.
authors.forename: Matthew S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Phillips
authors.affiliation: Water Research Laboratory, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNSW Australia, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.
authors.forename: Kristen D
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: Splinter