Dataset for An Effective Water Depth Correction for Pressure-Based Wave Statistics on Rough Bathymetry

This repositoy has the dataset for the scientific paper entitled "An Effective Water Depth Correction for Pressure-Based Wave Statistics on Rough Bathymetry", published on Nov/2024 in the Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology (JTECH). This work compares surface wave measurements from co-located pressure sensors and wave buoys on a rocky shore off of the Monterey Peninsula, California, USA. Measurements at 8 locations are analyzed, and we found that errors in observations from pressure sensors are due to the rough seabed of the rocky shore.  See the manuscript for additional details not covered here. The code for processing the data is archived in a separate GitHub repository (Paper_EffectiveDepth).

This repository has 4 zipped folders with data that are relavant for the paper. All the data is saved in .mat files generated with MATLAB. For reproducibility, these 4 folders should be saved inside a directory called data, and saved alongside the content in the GitHub repository. The 4 folders with data are:

bathymetry/ (~25 MB)

level_1/ (~1.8 GB)

level_2/ (~300 MB)

level_3/ (~32 KB)

The bathymetry folder has gridded bathymetry data in the study region, and ungridded bathymetry around instrument locations. The other folders have measurements from pressure sensors and wave buoys: level_1 has raw data (after basic quality control), level_2 has hourly wave statistics, and level_3 has results used in the paper. For reproducing figures in the paper, level_1 folder is not required.