Field measurement data of hydrodynamic and morphological processes in the mangrove forest of Lac Bay, Bonaire, Caribbean Netherlands

Dataset of field measurement of hydrodynamic and morphological processes in the mangrove forest of Lac Bay, Bonaire, Caribbean Netherlands.

For more information please see scientific publication:

Gijsman, R., Engel, S., van der Wal, D., van Zee, R., Johnson, J., van der Geest, M., Wijnberg, K.M. and Horstman, E.M. (2024). The Importance of Tidal Creeks for Mangrove Survival on Small Oceanic Islands. Submitted to Environmental Research Letters.

Dataset contains:

Timeseries data from field instruments:
Atmospheric pressure
Water depth
Water level
Flow velocity
Waves
Turbidity
Rainfall
Temperature
Wind
Tidal creek flows
Tidal creek transport
Lagoon suspension
Mapped data of field surveys:
Bathymetry and creek profiles
Sediment characteristics
Python script for importing and plotting data
Overview map with shapefiles of instrument location coordinates

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Additional notes for your information:

Timeseries data stored in .txt files
Visualization of data in .txt files provided with accompanying .png files
Timeseries data of Hobo sensors, Rain gauge and KNMI station interpolated between 19-01-2022 00:00:00 and 18-05-2022 23:55:00 (120 days) on 5 minute intervals
Timeseries data of other sensors interpolated between 19-01-2022 00:00:00 and 08-03-2022 23:55:00 (49 days) on 5 minute intervals
Column headers show instrument station abbreviation
Datetime in local timezone of Bonaire (GMT-4)
When a property (e.g., water depth) was measured by different instruments, the instrument used is mentioned in the file name, e.g. "water_depth_hobo.txt"
Measurements from KNMI (The Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute) station 990 were included in the dataset and indicated with '_knmi' in the file name. Data obtained from 'https://www.knmi.nl/nederland-nu/klimatologie/uurgegevens_Caribisch_gebied'