Beach-face slope dataset for Australia

Abstract. Sandy beaches are unique environments composed of unconsolidated sediments that constantly reshaped by the action waves, tides, currents, and winds. The most seaward region dry beach, referred to as beach face, is primary interface between land ocean fundamental importance coastal processes, including dissipation reflection wave energy at coast exchange sediment sea. slope face a critical parameter in geomorphology engineering, it needed calculate total elevation excursion run-up shoreline. However, datasets beach-face slopes along world's coastlines remain unavailable. This study presents new dataset for Australian coastline derived from novel remote sensing technique. covers 13 200 km sandy provides an estimate every 100 m alongshore accompanied easy-to-apply measure confidence each estimate. offers view large-scale spatial variability addresses growing need this information predict hazards around Australia. relevant metadata available https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5606216 (Vos et al., 2021).