Dataset for "New Perspectives for Nonlinear Depth-inversion of the Nearshore Using Boussinesq Theory"

This dataset gathers all cross-spectral, spectral and bispectral data produced and used in the manuscript accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters:
"New Perspectives for Nonlinear Depth-inversion of the Nearshore Using Boussinesq Theory", by K. Martins, P. Bonneton, O. de Viron, I. L. Turner, M. D. Harley and K. Splinter

The sharing of the processed data is motivated by research reproductibility purposes and with the hope that it will foster efforts in improving the newly-proposed depth-inversion procedure.

Three laboratory experiments are considered, namely the experiments reported in van Noorloos (2003), Michallet et al. (2011) and GLOBEX (e.g., see Ruessink et al., 2013). The processed data is organised in separate self-explanatory .mat files (generated with MATLAB software), gathering:

- "cel_data" : wave phase velocities obtained from cross-spectral and cross-correlation analyses between adjacent wave gauges
- "bulk_data" : range of bulk wave parameters computed across the different wave flumes
- "bispectrum_data" : spectral and bispectral estimates computed across the different wave flumes

The scripts for performing the depth-inversion as well as a for plotting the results are provided. The new Boussinesq depth-inversion procedure relies on the function "fun_compute_krms_terms.m", which is provided and originates from the bispectral analysis library accessible from the first author GitHub repository at https://github.com/ke-martins/bispectral-analysis.

Acknowledgements:
Kévin Martins greatly acknowledges the financial support from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skodowska-Curie Grant Agreement 887867 (lidBathy). We warmly thank Ap van Dongeren and Hervé Michallet for providing the raw data for the experiments described in van Noorloos (2003) and Michallet et al. (2011), respectively. The raw data from GLOBEX used in this research can be accessed on Zenodo at https://zenodo.org/record/4009405 and can be used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. The GLOBEX project was supported by the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme through the Hydralab IV project, EC Contract 261520.

References:
Michallet, H., Cienfuegos, R., Barthélemy, E., & Grasso, F. (2011). Kinematics of waves propagating and breaking on a barred beach. European Journal of Mechanics - B/Fluids, 30 (6), 624 – 634. doi: 10.1016/j.euromechflu.2010.12.004
Ruessink, G. B., Michallet, H., Bonneton, P., Mouazé, D., Lara, J. L., Silva, P. A., & Wellens, P. (2013). GLOBEX: Wave dynamics on a gently sloping laboratory beach. In Coastal Dynamics ’13: Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Coastal Dynamics, Arcachon, France.
van Noorloos, J. C. (2003). Energy transfer between short wave groups and bound long waves on a plane slope (Master’s thesis, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands). Retrieved from http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:13616ff0-407d-43de-9954-ba707cd40d27