Bed shear stress and near-bed flow through sparse arrays of rigid emergent vegetation

This data set provides the hydraulic boundary conditions, bed shear stress measurements, and near-bed flow field velocity measurements collected in flume experiments presented in the article "Bed Shear Stress and Near-bed Flow through Sparse Arrays of Rigid Emergent Vegetation" (Aliaga & Aberle, 2024). This research explores bed shear stress and near-bed flow characteristics in sparse arrays of rigid emergent cylinders mimicking vegetation. For this purpose, a novel adaptation of a shear plate was used to directly measure the bed shear stress acting at the canopy scale. These bed shear stress measurements were analyzed in relation to spatially averaged near-bed flow quantities for different array densities.