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Nature-based climate resilience through shoreline transformation: Captain Sinclair’s Recreational Area, VA, USA (2023-2024)


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Created: Jan 22, 2025 at 7:25 p.m.
Last updated: Jan 30, 2025 at 8:05 p.m.
Published date: Jan 30, 2025 at 8:05 p.m.
DOI: 10.4211/hs.060dd0ad11834a2793494c6914eaecf1
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Content types: Geographic Feature Content  Multidimensional Content 
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Abstract

Global climate change has led to many adverse impacts including changing weather patterns and an increase in the severity and frequency of extreme weather events. Traditional hard engineering solutions for coastal protection, such as seawalls and bulkheads, are becoming inadequate as they do not have the capacity to keep pace with the accelerating impacts of climate change. In response, there is growing interest in Natural and Nature-Based Features (NNBF), which offer innovative and adaptive approaches to coastal protection. NNBFs, such as salt marshes or living shorelines, have demonstrated potential for mitigating wave energy, reducing flood risks, and enhancing coastal resilience. However, the effectiveness of these features can vary based on their physical attributes and the specific environmental conditions in which they are implemented. The inconsistent performance of NNBFs has posed challenges for their widespread adoption, partly due to uncertainties in their efficacy and barriers in public policy.

This research focuses on evaluating the performance of NNBFs in attenuating waves through the natural environment, highlighting the benefits of hybrid NNBFs. Our findings demonstrate that, when combined, different NNBFs play complementary roles in wave attenuation. Thus, enhancing shoreline resilience and reducing marsh loss under dynamic water level conditions. These results highlight the importance of implementing diverse NNBF systems to address the dynamic nature of coastal conditions. By quantifying the performance of these features, this study offers valuable insights into designing and optimizing shoreline protection strategies that promote climate resiliency.

Here, a Jupyter Notebook is provided to a) Access the data; b) Generate plots; and c) Perform data analysis.

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Coverage

Spatial

Coordinate System/Geographic Projection:
WGS 84 EPSG:4326
Coordinate Units:
Decimal degrees
Place/Area Name:
Severn River in Gloucester County, Virginia
North Latitude
37.3271°
East Longitude
-76.4253°
South Latitude
37.3218°
West Longitude
-76.4317°

Temporal

Start Date:
End Date:

Content

readme.txt

This dataset contains two types of data:

Shapefile – Provides the locations of our sensors.
NetCDF - Wave Data Time Series.

The Jupyter Notebook (notebook_CRSA.ipynb) includes the necessary commands to:
	Access the data
	Generate plots
	Perform data analysis

For users unfamiliar with Python coding, an HTML version of the notebook is also provided for easy viewing without requiring a coding environment.

To ensure the notebook functions correctly, please store the folders "GPS" and "Waves" in the same directory.

Data Services

The following web services are available for data contained in this resource. Geospatial Feature and Raster data are made available via Open Geospatial Consortium Web Services. The provided links can be copied and pasted into GIS software to access these data. Multidimensional NetCDF data are made available via a THREDDS Data Server using remote data access protocols such as OPeNDAP. Other data services may be made available in the future to support additional data types.

Credits

Funding Agencies

This resource was created using funding from the following sources:
Agency Name Award Title Award Number
Virginia Sea Grant, Virginia Institute of Marine Science Shoreline Transformation Adaptation: Forward Looking Nature-Based Climate Resilience NA180AR4170083, Project R/72155Y and 77877B

How to Cite

de Lima, A., D. Cardona, T. W. Miesse, N. Tahvildari, A. Shahabi, C. Ferreira (2025). Nature-based climate resilience through shoreline transformation: Captain Sinclair’s Recreational Area, VA, USA (2023-2024), HydroShare, https://doi.org/10.4211/hs.060dd0ad11834a2793494c6914eaecf1

This resource is shared under the Creative Commons Attribution CC BY.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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